Dennis Potter Quotes (34 Quotes)

Blake was an activist and artist whose lifestyle truly reflected his values, ... He was the lead singer of Parallax, whose (song) lyrics involve a deep reflection on the alienation produced by our consumerist society. Of all the students I have had over my six years at UVSC, Blake was the most authentic.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Everything we do has consequences.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

There is a culture of anti-Mormonism on this campus.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.