The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard of the place. At last their supervisor showed up and set them straight by informing them that the city they had always referred to as 'Firenze' was in reality called Florence.

When you cut it up, put the pieces in your mouth and swallowed them, the British hamburger shaped itself to the bottom on your stomach like ballast, while interacting with your gastric juices to form an incipient belch of enormous potential, an airship which had been inflated in a garage. This belch, when silently released, would cause people standing twenty yards away to start examining the soles of their shoes. The vocalized version sounded like a bag of tools thrown into a bog.

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.