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“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”
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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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“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
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“May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.”
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“Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.”
Source : "Books of the Times", New York Times, June 6, 1984.
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“All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.”
Source : Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.549, Univ of California Press
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“It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.”
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“There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.”
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“Ghana is like a lion without a head”
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“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
