Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy. Tony Parsons More Quotes by Tony Parsons More Quotes From Tony Parsons Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it. Tony Parsons trust-your-instincts tides instinct The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening. Tony Parsons positive inspirational life I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic. Tony Parsons airports drama thinking Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become. Tony Parsons coming-home oneness home Love is what's left when being in love is gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters. Tony Parsons being-in-love gone love-is I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else. Tony Parsons bully coward behaviour The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement. Tony Parsons disfigurement tattooed regret The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up. Tony Parsons growing-up children fall Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening. Tony Parsons lucky moments sometimes And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens. Tony Parsons cat stars twilight to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go Tony Parsons beloved realizing mean My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. Tony Parsons teenage trying years The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down. Tony Parsons cocktails watches beach Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. Tony Parsons class years thinking Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it. Tony Parsons ugly tattoo flesh My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity. Tony Parsons parent gone years I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin. Tony Parsons swimming guy thinking When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym. Tony Parsons music-business dying ends There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too. Tony Parsons white running beach I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through. Tony Parsons toughness sweet
