As long as you smile have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet for that matter.

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink good luck.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance like a signpost or a warning notice.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us hovering averting our eyes and they seldom offer thanks but what we do for them is never wasted.