Quite Quotes

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.

I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

WE used to tour quite a lot during the summer with Everton in my day.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.

I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.