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Quotes by British Authors
"It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities."
"Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us."
"You've simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether they'll be there tomorrow, do you?"
"Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it."
"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself."
"I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were."
"I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing."
"You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self."
"There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities."
"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
"I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change."
"The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods."
"I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want."
"Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause."
"I advise people to avoid workplaces that prevent Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) visits."
"They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed."
"For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure."
"I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out."
"But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck."
"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."
"I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers."
"It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum."
"The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself."
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
"I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period."
"On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them."
"What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who's not supposed to say things like that?"
"Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within."
"There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good."
"Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose."
"Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools."
"I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination."
"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."
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