Craig Brown Quotes
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Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.
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Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.
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Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.
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More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.
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Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.
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The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.
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The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.
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The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible.
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One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
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Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.
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The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.
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It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
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As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
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Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.
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I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.
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Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.