Hardcastle Quotes & Sayings

That is because you don't see enough dead people, Hardcastle. If you saw more corpses you would realise that, while life is ridiculous, death is more ridiculous still. Be — A.J. MacKenzie

I think of the horizon at midnight, the sky and sea blurring together. — Sophie Hardcastle

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. — Charles Francis Richter

It's everything and nothing ... It's like the absent moment between night and day. — Sophie Hardcastle

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. — C.S. Lewis

Analytic philosophy has spent the last seventy years engaged in two successive revolts. If you didn't know this, don't feel bad -- philosophers engaged in revolt look pretty much exactly like philosophers not engaged in revolt. They go to the office, teach introduction to philosophy, make a few phone calls, have office hours, work on a rough draft, and head home. There's no storming of the parliament building, ripping up of city streets, or lobbing of Molotov cocktails for your revolting philosopher, or, I should say, the philosopher in revolt.
"Themes in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy as Reflected in the Work of Monty Python — Gary L. Hardcastle

The 'difference' = What you say you'll do - what you actually do — George Akomas Jr

Sometime it takes a Tree to save a forest. — S.J. Cameron

Come, Adam, a wise man does not step betwixt the beast & his meat. — David Mitchell

This is my first ... ah ... "
"Haunting?" he offered.
I snorted. "Yes, this is my first haunting."
"Then I'm flattered. — Tara Hudson

Similarly, if we ask "What have philosophers ever done for us?" we get involved in the following dialogue:
"Well, their examples help us to decide what we think about issues we haven't thought about before."
"Oh, yeah, well, that goes without saying, doesn't it?"
"And their examples help us discover whether we really believe what we say we believe, or not."
" Yeah, all right. I'll grant you that their examples help us to work out what we think, and to think better. But apart from helping us to work out what we think, clarifying our views, and helping us to solve hard problems, what do philosophers ever do for us?"
"Well, their examples are amusing."
James Taylor, "Why is a Philosopher Like a Python? — Gary L. Hardcastle

There's so much more to life than looking a certain way. — Hilary Swank

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be. — Cat Stevens

The afterlife is not so much a place but rather what happens to me, to the others left behind, after Ben's life. — Sophie Hardcastle

Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me — Don Darkes

I feel time beginning to slow, until the last of him is grey powder on the sea and time stops altogether. — Sophie Hardcastle

True places are not found on maps. — Herman Melville

Mia is the wind - the hot, dry western wind. And I am gravity. — Sophie Hardcastle

Inspector Hardcastle walked in manfully. Unfortunately for him he was one of those men who have cat allergy. As usually happens on these occasions all the cats immediately made for him. One jumped on his knee, another rubbed affectionately against his trousers. Detective Inspector Hardcastle, who was a brave man, set his lips and endured. — Agatha Christie

If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me. — Vijay Kumar

I think about giving up. I almost do. — Anchee Min

Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. — Karen Marie Moning

How often had she wondered what would have happened if she'd remained with Jonathan? Not often, but regularly over the years. It was impossible not to have imagined that rejected future, a life of many countries, of vast and enduring adventure, of tiny rooms and rental houses. It was the sense of missed opportunity that returned to her, frightening but real, overwhelmingly real. — Michael Stein

I have to go make books. Sorry about that. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden