The stuff was hitting it. Like the swells, knocked all that bark off.
GEORGE PULLMAN When they lost, they lost everything. It's really been a hard load. We're coming in here with a trai...
GEORGE PULLMAN Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ...
PHILLIP PULLMAN Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in y...
PHILIP PULLMAN I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and...
BILL PULLMAN Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagina...
PHILIP PULLMAN I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes rea...
PHILIP PULLMAN You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
PHILIP PULLMAN There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi...
PHILIP PULLMAN We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and si...
PHILIP PULLMAN After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
PHILIP PULLMAN I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I us...
PHILIP PULLMAN Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching.
BILL PULLMAN I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came t...
PHILIP PULLMAN 'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever.
PHILIP PULLMAN I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish an...
PHILIP PULLMAN I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and ...
PHILIP PULLMAN That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to ...
PHILIP PULLMAN I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it,...
PHILIP PULLMAN One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwar...
PHILIP PULLMAN Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ...
PHILIP PULLMAN I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...
PHILIP PULLMAN When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...
PHILIP PULLMAN I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest...
PHILIP PULLMAN With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to ...
BILL PULLMAN There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
BILL PULLMAN Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
BILL PULLMAN Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Indep...
BILL PULLMAN I'm a playwright and a novelist and a journalist. It's a weird Salinger-Mailer-Miller combination. W...
BILL PULLMAN Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Inde...
BILL PULLMAN We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time...
PHILIP PULLMAN Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocris...
BILL PULLMAN He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotatio...
PHILIP PULLMAN It's not like watching TV; it's not even like watching a film in a cinema. Everyone in that big spac...
PHILIP PULLMAN I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the o...
BILL PULLMAN Oh, Will," she said, "What can we do? Whatever can we do? I want to live with you forever. I want to...
PHILIP PULLMAN Walk Into the Sky.
PHILIP PULLMAN I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other aga...
PHILIP PULLMAN I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
PHILIP PULLMAN Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in yo...
PHILIP PULLMAN We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against t...
PHILIP PULLMAN You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll underst...
PHILIP PULLMAN It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturi...
PHILIP PULLMAN And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we...
PHILIP PULLMAN defied cynicism and entered politics.
BILL PULLMAN ...We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests....
BILL PULLMAN A story about... I play a guy who is with... Patricia Arquette is my wife and we're having troubles....
BILL PULLMAN The Zero Effect.
BILL PULLMAN I love to watch my kids stand under the tree and munch on (fruit). It's a constant pleasure to see t...
BILL PULLMAN It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right t...
PHILIP PULLMAN The shock is over with. Now we have to come back and create something that is compatible and accepta...
ROCKY PULLMAN Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
PHILIP PULLMAN She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job li...
PHILIP PULLMAN What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell ...
PHILIP PULLMAN He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if i...
PHILIP PULLMAN There was also an undercurrent of desperation about the town's sagging image. They put up booster si...
BILL PULLMAN Oddly, I've been brought into a conflict the town is facing now. A pharmacy chain is threatening to ...
BILL PULLMAN Occasionally they would hear a harsh croak or a splash as some amphibian was disturbed, but the only...
PHILIP PULLMAN The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Tell them stories.
PHILIP PULLMAN It was a place of brilliant sunlight, never undappled. Shafts of lemon-gold brilliance lanced down t...
PHILIP PULLMAN Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN People are too complicated to have simple labels.
PHILIP PULLMAN As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other ...
PHILIP PULLMAN People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such t...
PHILIP PULLMAN There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really...
BILL PULLMAN When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
PHILIP PULLMAN When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if...
PHILIP PULLMAN True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
PHILIP PULLMAN I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his crea...
PHILIP PULLMAN You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are ...
PHILIP PULLMAN And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrim...
PHILIP PULLMAN If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or n...
PHILIP PULLMAN Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are ...
PHILIP PULLMAN But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?

Well, then, you're discontente...
PHILIP PULLMAN Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into th...
PHILIP PULLMAN Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Eve...
PHILIP PULLMAN One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. ...
PHILIP PULLMAN When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if...
PHILIP PULLMAN If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don'...
PHILIP PULLMAN But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never...
PHILIP PULLMAN If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. ...
PHILIP PULLMAN We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death wil...
PHILIP PULLMAN The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it dir...
PHILIP PULLMAN Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. ...
PHILIP PULLMAN All good things pass away.
PHILIP PULLMAN Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to...
PHILIP PULLMAN So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and ...
PHILIP PULLMAN When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.
PHILIP PULLMAN We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
PHILIP PULLMAN You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.
PHILIP PULLMAN That's the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on the behalf of the young. And the ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. W...
PHILIP PULLMAN I see the Master as a man having terrible choices to make; whatever he chooses will do harm, but may...
PHILIP PULLMAN for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return
PHILIP PULLMAN We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die ...
PHILIP PULLMAN This is what’ll happen,” she said, “and it’s true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you...
PHILIP PULLMAN She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'...
PHILIP PULLMAN My flat's about half a mile away, and you know what I'd like most of all in the world? I'd like a cu...
PHILIP PULLMAN I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered,...
BILL PULLMAN Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are ...
PHILIP PULLMAN That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is t...
PHILIP PULLMAN We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed th...
PHILIP PULLMAN Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And...
PHILIP PULLMAN I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.
PHILIP PULLMAN Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act."
"To be myself, I have to put on an act," Gi...
PHILIP PULLMAN Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don...
PHILIP PULLMAN ...because where we are is always the most important place.
PHILIP PULLMAN We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.
PHILIP PULLMAN No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes an...
PHILIP PULLMAN Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well,...
PHILIP PULLMAN because he's Will
PHILIP PULLMAN It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have i...
PHILIP PULLMAN We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.
Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, th...
PHILIP PULLMAN ...But it gradually seemed to me that I'd made myself believe something that wasn't true. I'd made m...
PHILIP PULLMAN Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive aga...
PHILIP PULLMAN All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
PHILIP PULLMAN But Balthamos couldn't tell; he only knew that half his heart had been extinguished. He couldn't kee...
PHILIP PULLMAN Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of t...
PHILIP PULLMAN I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and th...
PHILIP PULLMAN I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of...
PHILIP PULLMAN And at the word alone, Will felt a great wave of rage and despair moving outwards from a place deep ...
PHILIP PULLMAN I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.
BILL PULLMAN Theater has always been most important to my psyche.
BILL PULLMAN I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like ...
BILL PULLMAN Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedi...
BILL PULLMAN I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
BILL PULLMAN There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, ...
BILL PULLMAN I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an inc...
BILL PULLMAN With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want...
BILL PULLMAN There is a correspondence between the microcosm and the macrocosm! The stars are alive, child! Did y...
PHILIP PULLMAN Well," said Mary, "love is ferocious, too.
PHILIP PULLMAN She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!"

"You think th...
PHILIP PULLMAN Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconica...
PHILIP PULLMAN Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.
PHILIP PULLMAN Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. I...
PHILIP PULLMAN Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.
PHILIP PULLMAN And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundam...
PHILIP PULLMAN It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI 'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL