Sylvester McCoy (Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) Quotes

Film actually is a very strange thing - you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you've never met - and that's weird!

Sylvester McCoy

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• In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Alone

• In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Running
  • Rest
  • Politics

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Parenting

• Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Religion
  • Selfish
  • Own

• The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Revolution
  • Nothing
  • Triumph

• There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Eating
  • Eat
  • Cow

• I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been addicted to video games ever since.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Old

• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Brave
  • Coward

• The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support for the concept of evolution.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Support
  • Powerful
  • Roots

• Me, I don't need money.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Money
  • Me
  • Need

• A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Education
  • Child
  • Born

• When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, he said. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound - this is what I had to go through.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Men
  • Women

• Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many jihadists have escaped.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • High
  • Death

• I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.

  

  Lucy Davis
  • Food
  • Stop
  • Struggle

• I wasn't a fan of boxing, I was a fan of Julio Cesar Chavez. All of Mexico stopped to watch his fights. Old, young, left, right and centre.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Boxing

• When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there's always something behind the wall in China.

  

  Jenny Shipley
  • People
  • Wall

• For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • People
  • Fun
  • Freedom

• I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.

  

  Eva Moskowitz
  • Kids
  • Design
  • Schools

• An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

  

  Charles Mackay
  • May
  • Air
  • Fly

• Film actually is a very strange thing - you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you've never met - and that's weird!

  

  Sylvester McCoy
  • Film
  • Fly
  • Strange