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Quotes by British Authors
"Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case."
"Tales of triumph are my favourite."
"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."
"He feared, in his secret heart, that one day in company the baby would sit up and speak; that it would engage his eyes, appraise him, and say, 'You prick."
"Frame everything and some of it will become art."
"When you don't fit in anymore, eat less."
"We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe."
"I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations."
"The whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string."
"There is a significant problem associated with burning large quantities of fossil fuels into the atmosphere. This pollution will change the electromagnetic transmission of the atmosphere and lead to an unnatural electromagnetic environment at the ground level where we all live. Once the electromagnetic environment has been significantly changed by these emissions, then we will be in a new era of evolution. It appears that we have already entered that era some time ago."
"TC Campbell doesn't need any introduction, the man is a legend in the prison community and outside when this very strong-minded man was trying to prove his innocence for the six murders he had been convicted for. TC went on a fifty-day hunger strike, he ended up in hospital. This man was willing to die to prove his innocence, if he never done his famous hunger strike he probably would have never go the MPS in government to sit up and take note."
"The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck."
"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat."
"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
"She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful."
"Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis."
"This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason."
"How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when you forget them, when you are not, in your heart, questing after something you cannot have, something you cannot even properly imagine, the lack of which will spoil your sleep and your day and your life, until you close your eyes for the final time..."
"In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge."
"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."
"The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people."
"My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today."
"To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king's whims. If he wants a new wife, fix him one. I didn't, and I am dead."
"I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years."
"The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone."
"I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me."
"We die a little every day and by degrees we're reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars."
"When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts."
"A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene."
"Without drive you will never get anywhere in life."
"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin."
"They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises."
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