Telegraph Christmas Quotes & Sayings

We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures. — Orhan Pamuk

The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry. — Ian McKellen

Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies. — Brian Acton

When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries. — Bob Shacochis

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual. — Julian Barnes

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind. — Alejandro Amenabar

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience. — Mandy Patinkin

And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned. — Ali Smith

Nay, the guest who has escaped from the roof, will think twice before he comes back in by the door. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Aye, that's me. Roughie toughie squaddie with the intellectual depth of a shallow baby bath and the educational background of a hedgerow. I'm complicated, me. — Marquesate

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans. — C.S. Lewis

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations. — Peter Singer