Top Bbc Quotes

Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the little West African country of Niger: a statelet famous only for its production of yellow...

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me Go...

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. An...

She will listen to BBC radio and hear the accounts of the deaths and the riots - religious with undertones of ethnic tension the voice will say. And she will fling the radio to the wall and a fierce r...