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Quotes by British Authors
"My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater."
"How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me."
"It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out."
"In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops." in the poem "Beyond the Beacon" from Terra Affirmative."
"It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid-and morally so. The game becomes an extended metaphor of character defect. Every error he makes is so profoundly, so irritatingly typical of himself, instantly familiar, like a signature, like a tissue scar or some deformation in a private place."
"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."
"You're as plain as the nose on your face, said Mr. Pennyworth. "And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are you. For the sake of all that is holy, empty your mind. Now. You are an empty alleyway. You are a vacant doorway. You are nothing. Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody."
"With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine."
"The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers."
"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
"If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them."
"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
"I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head."
"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."
"We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories."
"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
"Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."
"One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant."
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."
"Curiosity is a descending stair that leads to only who-knows-where."
"Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production."
"My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt."
"Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander."
"I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there."
"Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore."
"You have to accept all sides of yourself " there's no point fighting them " just learn how to handle them, and return to the positive, balanced being you know you can be, once the winds have blown through."
"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."
"Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?"
"I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin."
"He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her."
"I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month."
"One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated."
"I am so grateful to be here on this awesome planet with it's diverse life - everything we need to not just survive but to thrive. I am excited to continually learn more about it, and always curious to see what is going to come up next."
"A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime's memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller's window."
"Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."
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