Words matter. These are the best Jeremy Hardy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve never been able to understand how risk-averse my mum is. She hated conkers, pea shooters, and anything that could have someone’s eye out: skipping, swinging on your chair, talking with your mouth full.
I suppose I would like to find out more about my grandparents because I knew them when I was too young to grasp that they were interesting people. They were my grandparents, source of treats.
The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
I’m in the intriguing position of being a friend of Jeremy Corbyn and knowing him personally. It’s quite a strange position to know somebody that’s in the news and know the person who they’re talking about and taking pictures of.
Instead of people thinking, ‘Oh God, look at this terrible refugee crisis; we must do our bit’, there’s a lot of people thinking, ‘How can we get out of doing our bit and find reasons not to provide sanctuary for these people?’
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.
I feel that our attitude to our borders is wrong; it’s the first time that an awful lot of people think you can and should just close your border and remain in this splendid isolation.
I love doing ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue’ on Radio 4. It’s my favourite thing to do because it’s just daft: it’s not about the news. It’s not about anything.
Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.
You can sometimes sneak a political joke in, which is sometimes the most effective place for a political joke – when it’s not expected. It’s just the most fun thing to do.
Chemistry seems to be pretty much nailed down, and biology gains ground all the time. But physics seems to be mired in idle rumination. They think a Big Bang started the universe, but they don’t really know.
Apparently, some physicists argue that time is curved. I suppose this means that the past is in some way still present.
My idea of family is not dominated by blood ties. Families are fragile things, and I think it is social pressure and emotional attachments that keep them together.
For years, I’ve mocked Norfolk and King’s Lynn, and now I find out I’m from there!
I suppose there wasn’t a well-worn path into the British space programme because we didn’t really have a space programme. Dad was one of the pioneers of it.
I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.
I’m not terribly ambitious, not terribly driven.
