Sir Ian Wilmut Quotes & Sayings

Without anything being said, there were no women at our lunches. Not that we were talking pussy. Or not much. But it was a chaps thing. Seasoned observers all, we set the world, such as it was, to rights, offsetting our intellectual know-how with truly wondrous flights of fancy. It was at the time of the ruinous yet avoidable civil war in Angola, in which far too many people died, or, in our immortal parlance, became 'deadified.' It might have been anyone - actually, I [Christopher Hitchens] am sure it was our poet friend Craig Raine - who came up with the appalling yet unforgettable idea that there is a design flaw in the female form, and that the breasts and the buttocks really ought to be on the same side. For myself, I have oft been perplexed as to why our heads are where, in a truly just world, our penises really ought to be, and my arse is not located between my chin and my nose, allowing me mellifluously to talk out of it. — Craig Brown

I don't mind dating younger men now. — Jackee Harry

I plan to spend a lot of time making you see you how I see you because the view is unbelievable. — Kristen Proby

Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I'm always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn from them. — Judith Hill

Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom. — Tallulah Bankhead

You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things. — J. Michael Straczynski

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them
pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Like all other joys, she rejected it as sin. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

If you've got a CD that's not working, just wipe it on your trousers, and if you're not wearing any trousers, put some on — John Peel

Is this a Kurdish thing?'
'What?'
'Being deliberately contradictory? — Ian McDonald

Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen. — Irving Stone

Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"? — Erik Naggum

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. — Emma Thompson