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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”
Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”
Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left”
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“Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.”
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“Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.”
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“I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.”
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“Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.”
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“If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.”
