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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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“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”
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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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“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”
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“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”
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“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”
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“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
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“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”
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“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”
