Collection of Alan Brien's quotes

1. New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite-the taxi driver.


2. (of annual migration of Americans to Great Britain) - The blue-rinse warbler and her horn-rimmed mate are rare and overdue this year.


3. The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.


4. I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.


5. The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.


6. Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.


7. This Thane of Cawdor would be unnerved by Banquo's valet never mind Banquo's ghost.


8. (of Steve McQueen) - His features resembled a fossilized wash rag.


9. (of Nicol Williamson) - (as having)...eyes like poached eggs, hair like treacle toffee, and a truculent lower lip protruding like a pink front step from the long pale doorway of his face.


10. A Pinter play is like a Hitchcock film with the last reel removed.