A teacher at my school said he waved to Yuri Gagarin when he visited Manchester in 1961 after his trip into space. He said Gagarin drove through Moss Side, which some would say is more dangerous than travelling to outer space,
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live,”
― Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”
― Andy Warhol: In His Own Words
― Andy Warhol: In His Own Words
“remember being struck by how unfair society is, often to those who need its help the most.”
― Notorious
― Notorious
“I was given a cup of tea, but you’d never have guessed it was tea. They’d overdone it with the milk, and I can’t stand milky tea. Just writing ‘milky tea’ makes me gag, plus I always worry about drinking milk abroad after having a tiny bit in India that made me almost shit out a lung. I drank a little drop and was hoping to get it to”
― The Further Adventures of an Idiot Abroad
― The Further Adventures of an Idiot Abroad
“Two lanes are made into five lanes; one-way roads are definitely not one-way. An Indian sat nav probably just wishes you luck and tells you to go wherever you want.”
― The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington
― The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington
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