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Quotes by British Authors
"With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything."
"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
"The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment."
"A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief."
"And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion."
"Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!"
"If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple."
"One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant."
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
"Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations."
"There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it."
"I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it."
"Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted."
"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
"I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut."
"Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit."
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
"The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago."
"Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not."
"With experience comes improvement."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."
"The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage."
"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
"Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth."
"I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it."
"He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her."
"If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does."
"Don't accentuate our differences,but instead focus on our similarities."
"A little orange will put a spring into your day."
"When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business " that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time."
"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
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