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Preston, Peter Links

Guardian: Peter Preston - Archives of the political journalist's Monday column in the Guardian and occasional columns in the Observer.
IPI Anniversary Speech: "The Pen is Mightier that the Sword" - Speech by Peter Preston, Chairman of IPI (1995-1997)and Director of The Guardian Foundation, London, at the International Press Institute headquarters in Vienna.
Eurasian Media Forum EAMF 2003: Executive Report - British journalist Peter Preston chaired two lively sessions examining the media landscape in Eurasia. Issues included pressures placed on journalists, concentration of media ownership, and the responsibilities of businesses, governments, human rights and freedom of speech organisations.
Hetherington Memorial Lecture: The Newspaper of the Future - Inaugural lecture by Peter Preston discusses the challenges of the future including reader demands and interests, and the impact of the internet and other technological changes. Hosted by the Stirling Media Research Institute.
University of Leicester: Honorary Degrees 2003 - Short profiles of each of the recipients, some with photos.
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Preston, Peter A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Preston, Peter If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Preston, Peter "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Preston, Peter "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Preston, Peter The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Preston, Peter "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Preston, Peter "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea Preston, Peter I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard 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" "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Preston, Peter Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley Preston, Peter The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly 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 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Preston, Peter If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Preston, Peter Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Preston, Peter Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo Preston, Peter I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Preston, Peter Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Preston, Peter An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Preston, Peter They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Preston, Peter Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Preston, Peter Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Preston, Peter I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Preston, Peter Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash Preston, Peter
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