Some good quotes from Lemmy in an interview in Word magazine this month, including this one where, I think, he is making up a new word: I’ve always looked like a do-er, not a do-ee.
Entries Tagged as 'Quotes'
Karaoke rebels
July 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
My favourite quote of the month (so far) is, surprisingly, from Malcolm Maclaren in an interview. He says: What I would say is this: the authentic always shines through. Karaoke rebels always look like fools in the end. If you’re looking for something real, put your money away. The authentic experience is very rarely for [...]
A good point
June 17th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Life
I am currently reading John O’Farrell’s surprisingly thick history of Britain, and was very taken by this footnote: The Bible forbade Christians to lend money and so it became the trade of the Jewish diaspora. Modern right-wing Christians citing the Bible’s opposition to homosexuality do not seem to have the same enthusiasm for outlawing the [...]
Alternatives
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
A nice quote I came across yesterday about alternative medicine, alternative religion, alternative diets and all the other alternatives: It’s a good thing for people to examine an alternative , but dissatisfaction with the norm can also panic people into falling into love with the first philosophical piece of tail that falls upon their inward [...]
Bicycle sex
November 15th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Life
What to make of the story about the man who has been put on probation for attempting to have sex with his bicycle? Its easy enough to make jokes about it, and the headline seems to say it all, but I think the man in question has had a bit of a rough deal. Not [...]
Tags: Bicycle Sex·Books·Cycling·Quotes·WTF
Unlikely quote of the day
September 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Life
I am grateful to BBC4 for this providing this line, which is not something I could have expected to hear: And what is the connection between this urinal and the Protestant reformation? The answer was not as interesting as the question.
Essex Girls
September 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
As an Essex boy, from deepest South-East Essex, I was quite pleased to start reading a book called Starter for 10 and find that the main protagonist’s home town was Southend-on-Sea. The book is set in the early 80′s – around the same sort of time I used to spend a lot of time in [...]
Quote of the week – election special
May 10th, 2007 · 12 Comments · Politics
The local elections here in Crawley generated a few surprises, but little of the nail-biting excitement we are used to here. Anyone in need of entertainment at the count had to rely on a speech by Arshad Khan of the Justice party. Arshad is well-known within the town, and nothing he can says or does [...]
Tags: Elections·Local Papers·Quotes·WTF
Comparison of the week
April 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Life
After working all day, then going straight out delivering election addresses it was quite late in the day before I got round to reading what should have been my morning paper, but it was worth it for the West Ham/Everton match report. describing the end of West Ham’s season and the effect it has on [...]
Disillusion with Labour?
February 20th, 2007 · 16 Comments · Politics
From that book what I am reading: There was also a degree of disillusion with the political direction of the Labour Party. To the political left and the radical underground, the progress made by Roy Jenkins enacting liberal laws [*] was outweighed by a subsequent drift to the right in 1969 and early 1970: continuing [...]
Tags: Books·Labour Party·Nostalgia·Quotes·Tories
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