W. H. Aitken Quotes

I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.

When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.

On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.

If you asked her (Margaret Thatcher) about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus.

The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them

Business is the most exciting game.

Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.

It's only a must-win game if you need to win it

Last night we were the best team on the day.

The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.

I personally believe a crucial ingredient in rehabilitation is to admit that you completely screwed up.

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

You see someone like maybe William Eggleston. William doesn't even really talk about what he does; he just wants to make these images. He kind of hovers around a location and extracts these images.

Our culture is just too comfortable in creating these kind of divisions between culture.

Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.

We're all in this together and we don't have much time.

Lord take my lips and speak through them take my mind and think through it take my heart and set it on fire.

The world is'nt such a bad place at all - as long as one did'nt read the daily newspaper

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement industry health. And the greatest of these is judgement.