Writers Guild of Great Britain - Established in 1958, its mission, then as now, was to ensure that writers of all media are properly represented. Affiliated to the Trades Union Congress.
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Writers' Guild of Great Britain It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Writers' Guild of Great Britain
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Writers' Guild of Great Britain Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Writers' Guild of Great Britain I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Writers' Guild of Great Britain
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Writers' Guild of Great Britain Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Writers' Guild of Great Britain
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Writers' Guild of Great Britain Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Writers' Guild of Great Britain "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Writers' Guild of Great Britain People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Writers' Guild of Great Britain Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Writers' Guild of Great Britain
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Writers' Guild of Great Britain "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Writers' Guild of Great Britain
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Writers' Guild of Great Britain Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Writers' Guild of Great Britain
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Writers' Guild of Great Britain May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Writers' Guild of Great Britain
