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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"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."
"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
"I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!"
"Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom."
"One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot."
"The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven."
"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."
"Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with."
"The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up."
"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."
"There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course."
"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."
"The corruption of the American soul is consumerism."
"I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it."
"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
"Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?"
"I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone."
"Friends can create our most cherished memories."
"I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle."
"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."
"Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story."
"It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out."
"I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!"
"Why should we change that which makes us unique?"
"Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell."
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