Quotes from Andrew Marr

Opium had been prescribed as laudanum, a liquid 'medicine' that was also very popular among working-class men and women struggling to adapt to the industrial revolution.

In 1799 Princess Louisa of Prussia wrote to Jenner asking for 'vaccine' matter (the word comes from the Latin for 'cow'),

Son zamanlarda, demokrasiler birbirleriyle yar??an siyasi partilerin oy verenlerine daha iyi materyal bir gelecek (daha fazla e?ya) vaat etmeleri üzerine kurulmu?tur, her y?l her nesilde artan materyaller. Ama bilim ve bar?? gezegenin popülasyonunu do?al kaynaklar?n kar??layabilece?inden daha fazla artt?rd??? için bu uzun sürekli bir teklif de?ildir.

In this, the people living in the Near East were especially fortunate. There are fifty-six edible grasses growing wild in the world – cereals like wheat, barley, corn and rice. Of those, no fewer than thirty-two grew on the hills and plains of the Fertile Crescent of today's southern Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Iraq, compared with just four varieties apiece in Africa and America, and only one native variety, oats, in Western Europe.

Durante a sua permanência no Mali, voltou a ser ofendido. (Os árabes parecem ter considerado os costumes africanos tão grosseiros como os veriam os exploradores europeus, alguns séculos mais tarde.) Ibn Battuta esperava que os presentes de receção fossem belas vestes e dinheiro; em lugar disso, porém, foi presenteado pelo novo rei com três pães e uma porção de carne de vaca frita, bem como algum iogurte.

Events – dear boy – duly forced the devaluation option into centre stage. Decade by decade, government by government, the impact of energy policy on British politics is a constant theme. One could write a useful political history which did not move beyond the dilemmas posed by energy supply.

Some of the greatest of great men have also been the biggest bastards alive. As

All life changes the world, which is in a constant process of flux. Humans,

Human groups who kept cows so as to drink their milk developed digestive systems to cope, while Asians who never did this did not.

Some of the greatest of great men have also been the biggest bastards

She herself replied to one of her oldest friends who had written asking how to address her: "I really don't know! It might be anything—you might try 'All Hail Duchess,' that is an Alice in Wonderland sort of Duchess, or just 'Greetings' or 'What Ho, Duchess' or 'Say, Dutch'—in fact you can please yourself."28

Immigration has changed Britain more than almost any other single social event in post-1945 Britain – more than the increase in longevity, or the Pill, the collapse of deference or the spread of suburban housing. The only change which eclipses it is the triumph of the car.

The majority of British people did not want the arrival of large numbers of blacks and Asians, just as they did not want an end to capital punishment, or deep British involvement in the European Union, or many of the other things the political elite has opted for.

We stand not on the shoulders of giants, but on the shoulders of our grandparents and of our great-great-great-grandparents too.

Beethoven is said, however, to have torn out the title page in protest when Napoleon crowned himself emperor, and retitled it the Eroica, dedicating it 'to the memory of a great man' – with the emphasis on memory.

Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity.

Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.