ACHUKA Special Guest: Terence Blacker - Interview with the British author and journalist about current adult and children's books, including his own. With booklist and not-to-be-missed authorfile FAQ.
C4 BookBox: Terence Blacker - Profile of the author and Independent columnist includes a biography, audio clips and book list.
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Blacker, Terence Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Blacker, Terence
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blacker, Terence "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Blacker, Terence
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Blacker, Terence "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Blacker, Terence
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Blacker, Terence "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Blacker, Terence
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Blacker, Terence You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Blacker, Terence
What's new? Most of my wife. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Blacker, Terence Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Blacker, Terence
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Blacker, Terence A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Blacker, Terence
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Blacker, Terence "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Blacker, Terence
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Blacker, Terence "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Blacker, Terence
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Blacker, Terence No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Blacker, Terence
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Blacker, Terence America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Blacker, Terence
