One-liners
“Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!”
Speeches of Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1952), p. 121
The Green Mile (1996)
Context: I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin' to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I cain't.
“Follow the Nile
Deep to much deeper.
The Pyramids sound lonely tonight.”
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
Context: Follow the Nile
Deep to much deeper.
The Pyramids sound lonely tonight.
The sands run red
In lands of the Pharoahs.
Their symmetry gets right inside me.
“I'm here – but I haven't been given permission to drive.”
George Pascoe-Watson, "I wannabe No10 pilot", The Sun, 19 May 2006, p. 2.
Response to question by Sky News journalist "Do you like the feeling of being in the driving seat?" when in the Cockpit of an Airbus A380 on 18 May 2006.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
