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Quotes by British Authors
"I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe."
"I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here."
"It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility."
"I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually."
"Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America."
"I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback."
"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
"And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly."
"The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs."
"YOU are a signature to be dealt with and inspire, only when you move in to your authenticity."
"This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion."
"For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period."
"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
"We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature."
"I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight."
"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper."
"If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless."
"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."
"Prison madness is much the same! Insanity is plentiful in prisons. These days with the drug culture it's not a lot of difference, as a lot of convicts make themselves psychotic and paranoid. Many end up killers, all over petty and minor problems. Where men would once squabble, fight and kill over a ½ - oz of bacca they now do the same over a gram of white powder or a bag of brown!"
"Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries."
"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."
"Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation."
"And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience."
"Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform."
"You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses."
"I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off."
"There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way."
"Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error."
"History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."
"There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong."
"I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942."
"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."
"Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically."
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