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Quotes by British Authors
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
"I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime."
"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."
"People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure."
"I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it."
"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons."
"Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space."
"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA."
"Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre."
"The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular."
"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
"We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us."
"I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art."
"I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version."
"Time alone helps us to remember who we are."
"Happiness is so simple in life:If I laugh then you are laughing too."
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
"You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show."
"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."
"But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live."
"It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world."
"Don't accentuate our differences,but instead focus on our similarities."
"Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything."
"Great countries are those that produce great people."
"We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed."
"Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it."
"Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society."
"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."
"It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe."
"_____________________I'm lost for words."
"These wretched babies don't come until they are ready."
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