Rex Murphy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.”
-- Rex Murphy

#Novelists Quotes #Would Be Quotes #World Quotes
“The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?”
-- Rex Murphy

#Horse Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Waiting Quotes
“Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.”
-- Rex Murphy

#Philosophy Quotes #Kids Quotes #Mind Quotes
“Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.”
-- Rex Murphy

#Self Esteem Quotes #Valentine Quotes #Cards Quotes
“Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.”
-- Rex Murphy

#Country Quotes #Done Quotes #Whiskey Quotes
“Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.”
-- Rex Murphy

#Hollywood Quotes #Literature Quotes #Want Quotes

“Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.”
“I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.”
“Iâ€™d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you donâ€™t entertain, nobodyâ€™s listening.”
“There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.”
“I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.”

Source : Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.70, Three Rivers Press
“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”
“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
“First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.”
“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”

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