Richard Carleton quotes

Richard Carleton quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can't think of what they might be.”
-- Richard Carleton

#Thinking Quotes #Smoking Quotes #Might Quotes
“Cholesterol is a substance in the blood that causes you to eat salads.”
-- Richard Carleton

#Blood Quotes #Substance Quotes #Salad Quotes

“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
“Think it over, think it under.”
“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”
“Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.”
“Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking...”
“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.”
“Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.”
“The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.”
“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”
“We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.53, Transaction Publishers

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