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Quotes by British Authors
"These wretched babies don't come until they are ready."
"People who copy you will always be one step behind."
"Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day."
"With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine."
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
"I found it all very scary. This fairytale gets built around you - as if you've been walking through the streets and then Sydney Pollack sees you and goes, 'I'll put you in something!'"
"I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train."
"I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax."
"The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk."
"Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new-made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion."
"Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood."
"Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach."
"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."
"I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value."
"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers."
"During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned."
"We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear ."
"It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last."
"Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can."
"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo."
"A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'"
"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession."
"London is the clearing-house of the world."
"However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing."
"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
"When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again.(Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)"
"I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?"
"To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible."
"People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately."
"Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one's memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another."
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