Alexander Moncrieffe Quotes & Sayings

The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart. — Barack Obama

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees. — Woody Norris

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right. — Ian McEwan

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I do not believe indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and where necessary to remedy it, but I do believe that the exercise of reason is at all times necessary ... — Peter Medawar

The first principle of aid is respect. — Ernesto Sirolli

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. — Oliver Goldsmith

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring. — Temple Grandin

A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense - people who have changed my life - and notable in that many have gone on to enormous success in their writing careers. Whether or not I had a lot to do with those success stories, I'm very proud and happy for my former students getting on the map. — Rob Roberge

Kids get caught up in technical & electronic things like games & videos when all we had were magazines. — Christian Hosoi

Poetry was a barrier against raw
emotions. It distilled them into bearable
music, allowed one to accommodate them
a little at a time.

Alexander Moncrieffe — Julie Anne Long