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Quotes by British Authors
"I appreciated art, long before I could produce it."
"Now if you want to look to the medical profession for a true hard bastard, there is none harder, in my opinion, than the man I will now name. I mean, 99.9 per cent of doctors would want to protect their pension and keep in with the in-crowd, not, though, this man amongst men. The star witness against the screws from Barlinnie was Doctor Simon Danson."
"PAYE means pay as you earn but it could also mean Pretty Accurate Yet Estimated."
"We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment."
"So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on."
"I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place."
"The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head."
"Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations."
"Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used."
"To understand how growth, aging and death works, you must understand the radiation environment."
"I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great."
"In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants."
"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
"I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me."
"Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility."
"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
"Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other."
"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."
"To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all."
"The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in."
"Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became."
"Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce."
"The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it."
"I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections."
"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind."
"When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there."
"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."
"We enact many laws that manufacture criminals and then a few that punish them."
"There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles."
"You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home."
"I am wealth, I am abundance, I am Cosmic Ordering."
"I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it."
"Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction."
"Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively."
"My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters."
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