Keith Waterhouse Quotes
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The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.
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Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?"
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Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.
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Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.
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I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.
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Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.
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I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.
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The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.
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A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.
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Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.
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Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?
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