
“Civilized life begins with a boiled egg sitting upright in an egg cup.”
Miss Manners column "Egg On Their Face", June 19, 2005
Letter to Reginald Allen (5 March 1973)
“Civilized life begins with a boiled egg sitting upright in an egg cup.”
Miss Manners column "Egg On Their Face", June 19, 2005
“To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.”
Olly Blackburn meets Nic Roeg, TimeOut London, Olly Blackburn, Time Out Group Ltd and Time Out Digital Ltd., 9 July 2008, 23 February 2012 http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/5148/olly-blackburn-meets-nic-roeg.html,
“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”
Attributed to Russell in Crainer's The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations (1997), p. 258
Attributed from posthumous publications
“Accountability is mankind’s greatest obstacle. All our challenges stem from that.”
“Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake”
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 13, The Rat's First Letter