Frank Cottrell Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an English screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children’s fiction and for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom. (Frank Cottrell Boyce Quotes)
“And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.”
Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Unforgotten Coat
“He handed me one of the leaflets. It was a picture of our old house. Underneath, it said it was a character property with surviving period details, inc fire surround, in a settled residential area. Two bedrooms, two reception, kitchen and separate utility room. And that was it. Nothing about us or what happened there. You wouldn’t know it was our house except for the address.”
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Millions
“Like about ten times in each episode, which means that if you were watching it on Cartoon Network, he might say it like fifty times before breakfast.” (Frank Cottrell Boyce Quotes)
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Framed
“Sometimes something vanishes, and afterwards you can’t stop looking at the place where it used to be.”
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Framed
“There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt too big. But now I felt small. Too small. Too small to count. Every star is massive, but there are so many of them. How could anyone care about one star when there were so many spare? And what if stars were small? What if all the stars were just pixels? And earth was less than a pixel? What does that make us? And what does that make me? Not even dust. I felt tiny. For the first time in my life I felt too small.”
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Cosmic
“There is no patron saint of estate agents because no estate agent has ever become a saint. There have been saints who were sailors, blacksmiths, soldiers, bakers, teachers, housewives, swineherds, kings even. But in the whole of history, not one estate agent ever became a saint or even a blessed. It makes you think.”
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Millions
“They thought he was a dog. If you say “dangerous dog,” folk think you’re talking about a dog that bites, not someone who hands out deadly weapons at children’s parties.”
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth
“We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out, those footprints will be there forever because there’s no wind.”
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Cosmic
“What I remember is being on the moon. I remember every second. Every stone. Every star we saw. Sometimes it feels like I never really came back.” – spoken by character Alan Bean”
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Cosmic
“Without even looking at me, he swiped the scissors out of his belt and flung them across the room. They flashed through the air and stuck, shivering, deep in the wood of the door, right next to my head. I held my breath. “I never miss.” He grinned. “Unless I mean to.”
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth
“You don’t have to have a home to get homesick. You just have to want one. The whole history of your wee planet is nothing but people looking for a home.”
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth
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