“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
Noel Coward, bon vivant English playwright, composer, actor, director and singer, known for his wit, wisdom, pomp and polish!
“The higher the building the lower the morals.”
Mr. Abercrombie, the well traveled guitar aficionado
Science fiction novelist, Philip K. Dick
“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.”
“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.””
Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.””
from a 1960 Folkways Record, interviewing Ms. Mead
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” ”
Vivian Stanshall, the British exceptionalist fronting the Bonzo Dog Band took some cues from Mr. Coward!