#me

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#becomes #began #complicated #ever #first

It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#astonishing #black #few #go #green

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#first #i #i think #just #our

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#because #become #doing #else #incapable

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#bedroom #big #breakfast #day #even

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along. ↗

— August Wilson

#along #characters #discover #go #going

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#i #same #sound #techniques #think