John McCarthy Quotes

My life changed forever the first time I went to the southern hemisphere.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

Everything has to do with geography.

In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.'

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists.

As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.

North of the 49th parallel we value equality, south of it, they treasure freedom.

The chairman thought it was violent. If he had come from Montana, he wouldn't think it was so violent.

It is a gross mistake to suppose that ' abolition' is the cause of dissolution between the north and the south. The Cavaliers, Jacobites, and Huguenots of the south naturally hate, contemn, and despise the Puritans who settled the north. The former are master races, the latter a slave race, the descendants of the Saxon serfs

I'm from Oklahoma, and Nick's from a small town in Illinois.

The breadth of work that's possible is wider and deeper for someone who looks like me in the States than it is in the U.K.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different.

I come from the south, so you're useless, and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you. You're also from the city, so you are used to having your cappuccinos and your luxuries and getting your chicken from a plastic packet.

I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.

I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.

You have to understand that Singapore is quite different from Mauritius.