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Quotes by British Authors
"A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of time they come afterwards. A man dies and is buried, and all his words and actions are forgotten, but the food he has eaten lives after him in the sound or rotten bones of his children. I think it could be plausibly argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or even of religion....Yet it is curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized. You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but none to cooks or bacon-curers or market gardeners."
"Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money."
"I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person."
"I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time."
"The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real."
"In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite."
"Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself."
"If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force."
"In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'"
"I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones."
"As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV."
"But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it."
"Jedi are always assessing situations, actions and possibilities. Jedi don't just think outside of the box with the help from the Force, they also adapt to situations outside of the box!"
"My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did."
"Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway."
"But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter."
"Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off."
"It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them."
"Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along."
"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
"No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars."
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
"Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is."
"I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it."
"But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle."
"The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you'."
"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
"I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then."
"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
"People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that."
"It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities."
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