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Quotes by British Authors
"I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops."
"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."
"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."
"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."
"But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that."
"The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs."
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
"A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it."
"Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted."
"A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads."
"And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment."
"Our society's need for escapism has always interested me."
"And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting."
"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."
"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
"Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft."
"Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect."
"I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on."
"I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate."
"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."
"When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing."
"Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing."
"In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me."
"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."
"One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process."
"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."
"I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring."
"Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance."
"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
"I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through."
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