Geordie Rome > Geordie's Quotes

“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.”
― William S Burroughs

“I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.”
― Jackie Collins

“It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.”
― jack Kerouac

“I'm not a skinhead, I'm not a punk, I'm not a rocker - I'm a funky monk.”
― Geordie Rome

“People over here don't appreciate physical culture so much. My theory...and all theories should be taken with a bottle of best Scotch...my theory is that it's all to do with the weather. We're not used to the body here. We've developed a whole bunch of ethical idiosyncracies to cope with such. We behave like squeezed lemons, I reckon.' (p 84, Flex, Or, A novel Exposing Johnny Stone's Adventures in Muscleland)”
― GEORDIE ROME

“I know someone who believes he can take Orion's Belt from its high place and wear it with his trousers. I guess you've got to aim high when your braces don't work any more.”
― GEORDIE ROME

“Johnny Stone sat alone on a railway station bench. Watched the endless interchange of people on the platform before him. Looked like they knew where they were going – but just looked like they knew it. Nobody really knew where he or she was going to. Everybody – including Johnny himself – was presented with chance. Chance led to choice. Then choice led to chance again. ‘Luck’ was another name for taking your chances and making the right choices. End of.”
― GEORDIE ROME

“Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!”
― Vivian Stanshall

“Charlotte Cavendish: [as Tink walks away] What would Tinker be doing at the Woman's Institute? Lovejoy: What everyone does at the Women's Institute... talk about sex.”
― Lovejoy (TV Script)