Michael Frayn Inspirational Quotes (9)

No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp.

It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which we call legs. The tables in this laboratory, ma'am, are as advanced in design as one will find anywhere in the world.

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.

We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.

When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.