A Selection of Pointy Sticks from Sinfield's email signatures. May 2001- May 2003
 

"He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. "I know myself, "he cried, "but that is all - " (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge or art."  (V. Nabakov)

"We suspect the suffering servant of either masochism or hypocrisy or both, and while we are often wrong, we are not
always wrong." (Michael Walzer)

"To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility." (Harold Pinter)

"Most liars lie too hard, whereas the truth tends to speak for itself." (Edward Docx)

"If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." (Elmore Leonard's No.1 Rule.)

'RIOT' - "A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders." (Ambrose. Bierce)

"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those who find us boring." (La Rochefoucauld)

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". (?)

"Cruel men cry easily in the cinema." (Graham Greene)

"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from aquiring the deadening effect of habit."(Somerset Maugham)

"By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming an idiot yourself." (Gustave Flaubert)

"Buddhism is disconcerting to those who equate faith with belief in certain inspired religious opinions." (Karen Arstrong)

"It is proportion that beautifies everything." (Orlando Gibbons.)
 
 

And now, by way of light relief some, er Wibbly-Wobbly Sticks.

"As I always say, a difference of opinion makes horse racing possible." (Carl Palmer)

"All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand."  (Steve Wright)

" 'Cat's eyes' were invented in 1933 by Percy Shaw who in1965 was awarded the OBE.

"Ah, sausage! how fine a thing it is . . ." (Voltaire)

"Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!" (A palindrome,though not by W. H Auden (PjS))

"The Croations don't play well without the ball." (Barry Venison* / * =  Soccer Commentator)

"We didn't underestimate them- they were just a lot better than we thought." (Bobby Robson*)

"Bobby Robson must be thinking about throwing on some fresh legs." (Kevin Keegan*)

"Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored." (Terry Venables*)

"He dribbles a lot and they don't like it: you can see it all over their faces." (Ron Atkinson*)

"Mondays child is fair of face." (Though presumably not if he was playing in the previous football match?)

Some words we've stolen from Norse. "Balderdash, you oaf! I am so angry, If I get an inkling you are flaunting the dregs of your talent, I will cover your vole in glitter.

The patron saint of Taxi Drivers is 'St Fiacre'. (Occasionally drivers rearrange the spelling and add a 'u'.(PjS)

The esperanto for I love You is "Mi amas vin."

The Yiddish for religiously devout is 'Frum'.

If you are ever in a taxi on route to view some PAINTINGS: ("The art of protecting flat surfaces from the
weather and exposing them to critics." (A. Bierce); The use of the two previous phrases is not advised.(PjS)

"The way to really promote tolerance is to make it compulsory." (Jeremy Hardy.)

"Welcome to Israel, once a mecca for tourists... " (BBC Radio4)

"Traditionally the bulk of Australian imports have come from overseas." (The Sydney Herald.)

"I never make predictions and I never will." (Glen Hoddle*)

"Knowledge consists of knowing that a tomato is a fruit, and wisdom consists of not putting it in a fruit salad." (M. Kington)

"Well no Peter, I wouldn't exactly say that YOU are sweet. Erm, Ha! You're more like savory." (I. Wallace)



Some quotations from Sinfield's email signatures'. May 2001- May 2002


"The essence of liberty is not that my interests should be tolerated, but that I should tolerate yours". (Tom Stoppard)

"Stories keep our souls alive." (Philip Norman)

"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting." (Tom Stoppard)

"Its all folk music man, I ain't never heard a horse sing a song." (Louis Armstrong)

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline." (Frank Zappa)

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." (Tom Robbins from Still Life With Woodpecker)

"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting! " (Karl 'The Great' Wallenda.
The grandfather of Maria; the housekeeper, who once tutted kindly over my mother and her flock.)

"If I had to choose between going to a funeral or going to a wedding, I'd always choose a funeral because there's something so final about a wedding." (Miles Kington)

"Politeness is half good manners and half good lying." (Mary Wilson Little)

"It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." (Samuel Johnson)

"Everyone loves a 'no'. " (Billy Lawrie - songwriter)

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." (Alfred Adler)

"A cynic is what a idealist calls a realist." (Mike Harris)

"My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading." (Steve Jobs)

"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude - roots that can be pulled up." (George Elliot)

"There are some gates sex shuts even more firmly than death does." (Jenny Turner)



"Nearly all human life has always taken place far from hot baths." (Simone Weil)

"The price of freedom is eternal vulgarity." (Jeremy O'Grady)

"As for the Islamists, they represent nothing more than a bleak and bloody dead end." (Anatol Lieven)

"I found out he'd been lying. He wasn't a pilot at all, just an unemployed mini-cab driver!" (Woman on TV)

"Don't forget this, its the law of the universe that the strong shall survive and the weak must fall by the way, and I don't give a damn what idealistic plan is cooked up, nothing can change that." (Walt Disney - animator?)

"Palestinian elders on Gaza Reservation win battle to open casinos." (PjS er, circa 2022)

"The destruction of imagination is at the heart of fundamentalism." (Susan Greenberg)

"Whatever you say, say nothing." (Seamus Healey)

"There's no such thing as a great idea. Style and form are what's important." (Nabokov)

"Peter, 2 fingers is exactly the right number for YOU to write your book!" (Perry Press)

"What is your opinion of Western Civilisation? - I think it would be a good idea." (Gandhi)

"The United States, for all its faults, is still the greatest nation in the country." (S. Agnew)

"Man cannot stand a meaningless life." (C. G. Jung)

"People are not very well made." (PjS.)