Gollancz Publishing Quotes & Sayings

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. — Mark Twain

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing. — Robert Wyatt

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me. — Martin Parr

Paying attention on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Hey, don't you ever fake orgasms with me."
She huffed. "I don't get why guys get so pissed when girls do that. Hell, your gender can fake an actual relationship. — Suzanne Wright

I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome. — Maggie Q

First, there is the separation cry, which is a young mammal's distressed vocalization when separated from a caretaker. This cry is actually an attempt to regain attachment upon separation, and thus we call it the attachment cry. Other defensive subsystems include hypervigilance and scanning the environment, flight, freeze with analgesia, fight, total submission with anesthesia, and recuperative states of rest, wound care, isolation from the group, and gradual return to daily activities — Onno Van Der Hart

It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole. — Nick Hornby

No one pretends that Shakespeare was (divinely) inspired, and yet all the writers of the books of the Old Testament put together, could not have produced Hamlet. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally. — George Pataki

Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism. — Jomo Kenyatta

The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws. — J. D. Hayworth

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities. — Emile Zola