8 Quotes by Norman Stone

In some respects, the Scottish Enlightenment, in the eighteenth century, had been an anticipation of later developments in Vienna: the same desire to systematise, to overthrow outworn structures, to rationalize. The secularisation of the Calvinist mind, and the secularisation of the Jews, gave early twentieth-century intellectual life its characteristic stamp.

fair to say that Tolkien and Lewis influenced each other as writers. I have made this new film because I wanted to tell the whole story of Lewis's life and I feel Lord of the Rings has created a new audience which will appreciate Lewis's work too.

What's the problem? Everybody says that when they come over here. What's the problem?

Some people may see it as trading insults,

Back in America, you hear this sort of stuff -- if you don't knock out a guy in Germany, you get robbed. It was an awful, awful decision.

It's not as bad as it seems. His head's big as a Volkswagen . Johnny can't miss that head.

I'm done. I'm tired of boxing and last week's bad decision was the last straw. I'm sorry if my actions sometimes upset people.

If I knew that we never would have come over here.