Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
ALAN BRADLEYDuring a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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