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

• 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

• I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

  

  James Arthur

• I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy.

  

  John Darnielle
  • People
  • California

• Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.

  

  William Cowper
  • Air
  • Virtue
  • Blame

• Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.

  

  Eugene Jarecki
  • President
  • Changed
  • Taxes

• 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