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Quotes by British Authors
"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."
"A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical."
"Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us."
"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
"I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men."
"Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous."
"I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry."
"The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual."
"Happiness is so simple in life:If I laugh then you are laughing too."
"Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!"
"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."
"I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs."
"I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'."
"Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately."
"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
"The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians."
"There's no point pretending to be someone or something we're not."
"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."
"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?"
"I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play."
"The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name."
"The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other."
"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."
"Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions."
"You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish."
"I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy."
"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."
"If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else."
"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."
"I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you."
"It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it."
"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind."
"In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake."
"We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object."
"My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt."
"Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction."
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