6 Quotes by Simon Gray

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

JASON: 'Intended wings.' How depressing.MICHAEL: Yes. Makes them into suicides, really, the pigeons.JASON: No - no, it doesn't. It could mean the wings were 'intended' to carry them upwards, out of the darkness, but they were defective in some way, these wings, so the pigeons aren't suicidal, not at all, just badly equipped for flying. Like the rest of us.

Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself - instead it has everything to do with you.

I’m fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it.

We’ve forgotten that chasing happiness or peace only causes it to seem further away. It’s a little like wild kittens. You can chase them all day long and not catch them. But, if you sit quietly and allow them to come to you, you will tame them in time.