Sylvester McCoy (Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) Quotes
'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.
Quotes to Explore
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him so much.
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I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.
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A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
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It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.
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His screaming stallions maned with whistling wind.
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I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.
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It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do it respectfully, and I was also thinking about how I could add something new to something that had already been so explored.
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Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
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'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.
