A. A. Gill Quotes, Past Quotes, Fiction Quotes

Location | Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> A. A. Gill Quotes

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Admin

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Past Quotes , Fiction Quotes

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.

Admin

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Science Quotes , Museums Quotes

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

Admin

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Art Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Admin

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Travel Quotes , Years Quotes

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.

Admin

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Funny Quotes , Beach Quotes