28 Quotes by Phillip Adams

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.

It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

Success is easy. Any mug can be successful and make a fist of it. It's how you deal with it afterwards that is the test of character. I've watched a lot of people lose everything. Now Keating in a sense has lost everything. If you add up all the things he's lost, it's pretty significant. But there is still an absolutely remarkable, unbroken, interesting, involved bloke who is not crushed by what he's been through at all. He's still defiant, he's still funny, he's still full of ideas.

We've been motivated this year. Everybody on our team expects to be good. Everybody expects to win every time we play. It won't be that hard to calm down and let everything work. We'll play until the final second.

You've only to walk amongst them, to trail your fingers over their spines, to be enriched by a wonderful osmosis