Quotes by Harry Harrison

“I like Ireland because it means Im near France.”

“The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.”

“Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.”

“Smith put this woman through a horrific and terrifying ordeal and, although his sentence will not erase what has happened, I am pleased that it reflects the seriousness of his crime.”

“Even more so, ... The military is always out to get you. And theyre very cruel and heartless — with good reason, too. They want to break you down in basic training. They want you to die in combat. For a civilian, its a heartless regime. From the military point of view, its a wonderful way to get guys out there and kill people.”

“Theyve been through three scripts, 14 rewrites. They cant get it right,”

“So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me.”

“The world has been priced for bad news economically which just isnt coming through. The low yield environment might not be right.”

“Growth expectations are improving around the world. There is further to go in this sell-off.”

Everyone has got their own ideas and they push them and say to hell with everyone else. Thats the history of the human race. It got us on top, only now it is pushing us off. The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way. Try to get them to change and they fight you, even while theyre dying, saying it was good enough for grandpa so its good enough for me. Bango, dead.

The principles we live by in business and in social life are the most important part of happiness.