Paddington Bear Birthday Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective — Beth Nielsen Chapman

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. — Wojciech Jaruzelski

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants. — Peter Beard

Be kind! Go and burn the world with the fire of your love. — Debasish Mridha

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books. — Paul McCartney

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others. — David Macaulay

Walk with the dead
For fear of death. — Philip Larkin

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims. — Derrick Jensen

The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark. — Mads Mikkelsen