David Eagleman at the School of Life
“'It’s very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who’s learning to play the violin.’ That’s what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver”
“Legally, a big sister can throw out a younger brother because she’s bigger than he is, and he bugs her all the time and she can do it, and I did it!!! (And if you’re smart, you won’t get involved)”
“The bullets came fast, too fast to feel. That’s how it should be done, each shot coming quick after the last so you can’t even try to recover, which is when it hurts”
“RECIPE FOR MURDER: Throw all the ingredients into a big pot and simmer slowly, stirring with a wooden spoon for a few years. Add the ducks, chillies and brandy towards the end and turn up the heat”
“17 Orchard Lane is the home of the Radleys and, despite their very best efforts, they are anything but normal”
“Was this the beginning, was this the true moment of conception? Was this the distant early meeting place that had engendered the pure gold baby?”
“She was like those girls who learned to dance with other girls, taking turns to be the man. They never got the hang of following, once they knew what it was like to lead”
“Hello and welcome to the new, handy, easy-to-wield Pocket Book of Boosh”
Simon’s Cat in ‘cat man do’
Simon Tofield walks us through how to draw the famous cat
“having been born into this strange life we must accept the wasted gamble of our days and take some satisfaction in the pleasure of leaving it all behind”
“Everything was beautiful. The merchandise was moving like crazy. I was sure that when I got back home for the summer I would have enough scratch to turn everybody green with envy”
“It was the twenty-fifth of July Nineteenth Hundred and Thirty-Eight, and Lisbon was glittering in the azure purity of an Atlantic breeze, Pereira maintains”
“If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever”
“No wonder he loved it. It danced among its own debris. When Glasgow gave up, the world could call it a day”
