I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and...
BILL PULLMAN Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching.
BILL PULLMAN With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to ...
BILL PULLMAN There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
BILL PULLMAN Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
BILL PULLMAN Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Indep...
BILL PULLMAN I'm a playwright and a novelist and a journalist. It's a weird Salinger-Mailer-Miller combination. W...
BILL PULLMAN Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Inde...
BILL PULLMAN Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocris...
BILL PULLMAN Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the o...
BILL PULLMAN defied cynicism and entered politics.
BILL PULLMAN ...We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests....
BILL PULLMAN A story about... I play a guy who is with... Patricia Arquette is my wife and we're having troubles....
BILL PULLMAN I love to watch my kids stand under the tree and munch on (fruit). It's a constant pleasure to see t...
BILL PULLMAN There was also an undercurrent of desperation about the town's sagging image. They put up booster si...
BILL PULLMAN Oddly, I've been brought into a conflict the town is facing now. A pharmacy chain is threatening to ...
BILL PULLMAN There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really...
BILL PULLMAN I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered,...
BILL PULLMAN I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.
BILL PULLMAN Theater has always been most important to my psyche.
BILL PULLMAN I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like ...
BILL PULLMAN Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedi...
BILL PULLMAN I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
BILL PULLMAN There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, ...
BILL PULLMAN I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an inc...
BILL PULLMAN With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want...
BILL PULLMAN Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ...
PHILLIP PULLMAN Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in y...
PHILIP PULLMAN Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagina...
PHILIP PULLMAN I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes rea...
PHILIP PULLMAN You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
PHILIP PULLMAN There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi...
PHILIP PULLMAN We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and si...
PHILIP PULLMAN After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
PHILIP PULLMAN I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I us...
PHILIP PULLMAN I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came t...
PHILIP PULLMAN 'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever.
PHILIP PULLMAN I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish an...
PHILIP PULLMAN I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and ...
PHILIP PULLMAN That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to ...
PHILIP PULLMAN I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it,...
PHILIP PULLMAN One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwar...
PHILIP PULLMAN Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ...
PHILIP PULLMAN I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...
PHILIP PULLMAN When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...
PHILIP PULLMAN I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest...
PHILIP PULLMAN We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time...
PHILIP PULLMAN He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotatio...
PHILIP PULLMAN It's not like watching TV; it's not even like watching a film in a cinema. Everyone in that big spac...
PHILIP PULLMAN I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Oh, Will," she said, "What can we do? Whatever can we do? I want to live with you forever. I want to...
PHILIP PULLMAN Walk Into the Sky.
PHILIP PULLMAN I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other aga...
PHILIP PULLMAN I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
PHILIP PULLMAN Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in yo...
PHILIP PULLMAN We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against t...
PHILIP PULLMAN You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll underst...
PHILIP PULLMAN It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturi...
PHILIP PULLMAN And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we...
PHILIP PULLMAN It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right t...
PHILIP PULLMAN The shock is over with. Now we have to come back and create something that is compatible and accepta...
ROCKY PULLMAN Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
PHILIP PULLMAN She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job li...
PHILIP PULLMAN What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell ...
PHILIP PULLMAN He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if i...
PHILIP PULLMAN Occasionally they would hear a harsh croak or a splash as some amphibian was disturbed, but the only...
PHILIP PULLMAN The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Tell them stories.
PHILIP PULLMAN The stuff was hitting it. Like the swells, knocked all that bark off.
GEORGE PULLMAN She'll tell you, we climbed trees to get here.
GEORGE PULLMAN It was a place of brilliant sunlight, never undappled. Shafts of lemon-gold brilliance lanced down t...
PHILIP PULLMAN Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN People are too complicated to have simple labels.
PHILIP PULLMAN As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other ...
PHILIP PULLMAN People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such t...
PHILIP PULLMAN When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
PHILIP PULLMAN When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if...
PHILIP PULLMAN True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
PHILIP PULLMAN I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his crea...
PHILIP PULLMAN You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are ...
PHILIP PULLMAN And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrim...
PHILIP PULLMAN If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or n...
PHILIP PULLMAN Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are ...
PHILIP PULLMAN But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?

Well, then, you're discontente...
PHILIP PULLMAN Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into th...
PHILIP PULLMAN Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Eve...
PHILIP PULLMAN One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. ...
PHILIP PULLMAN When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if...
PHILIP PULLMAN If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don'...
PHILIP PULLMAN But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never...
PHILIP PULLMAN If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. ...
PHILIP PULLMAN We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death wil...
PHILIP PULLMAN The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it dir...
PHILIP PULLMAN Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. ...
PHILIP PULLMAN All good things pass away.
PHILIP PULLMAN Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to...
PHILIP PULLMAN So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and ...
PHILIP PULLMAN When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.
PHILIP PULLMAN We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
PHILIP PULLMAN You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.
PHILIP PULLMAN That's the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on the behalf of the young. And the ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. W...
PHILIP PULLMAN I see the Master as a man having terrible choices to make; whatever he chooses will do harm, but may...
PHILIP PULLMAN for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return
PHILIP PULLMAN We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die ...
PHILIP PULLMAN This is what’ll happen,” she said, “and it’s true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you...
PHILIP PULLMAN She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'...
PHILIP PULLMAN My flat's about half a mile away, and you know what I'd like most of all in the world? I'd like a cu...
PHILIP PULLMAN Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are ...
PHILIP PULLMAN That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is t...
PHILIP PULLMAN We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed th...
PHILIP PULLMAN Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And...
PHILIP PULLMAN I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.
PHILIP PULLMAN Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act."
"To be myself, I have to put on an act," Gi...
PHILIP PULLMAN Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don...
PHILIP PULLMAN ...because where we are is always the most important place.
PHILIP PULLMAN We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.
PHILIP PULLMAN No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes an...
PHILIP PULLMAN Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well,...
PHILIP PULLMAN because he's Will
PHILIP PULLMAN It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have i...
PHILIP PULLMAN We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.
Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, th...
PHILIP PULLMAN ...But it gradually seemed to me that I'd made myself believe something that wasn't true. I'd made m...
PHILIP PULLMAN Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive aga...
PHILIP PULLMAN All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
PHILIP PULLMAN But Balthamos couldn't tell; he only knew that half his heart had been extinguished. He couldn't kee...
PHILIP PULLMAN Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of t...
PHILIP PULLMAN I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and th...
PHILIP PULLMAN I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of...
PHILIP PULLMAN And at the word alone, Will felt a great wave of rage and despair moving outwards from a place deep ...
PHILIP PULLMAN There is a correspondence between the microcosm and the macrocosm! The stars are alive, child! Did y...
PHILIP PULLMAN Well," said Mary, "love is ferocious, too.
PHILIP PULLMAN When they lost, they lost everything. It's really been a hard load. We're coming in here with a trai...
GEORGE PULLMAN She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!"

"You think th...
PHILIP PULLMAN Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconica...
PHILIP PULLMAN Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.
PHILIP PULLMAN Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. I...
PHILIP PULLMAN Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.
PHILIP PULLMAN And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundam...
PHILIP PULLMAN Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno...
BILL MAHER No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri...
BILL MURRAY President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a ...
BILL O'REILLY Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out ...
BILL VIOLA When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSON Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves an...
BILL WATTERSON From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's differ...
BILL WATTERSON The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
BILL COPELAND Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
BILL RANCIC Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES I'm a geek.
BILL GATES