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Quotes by British Authors
"A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price."
"A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads."
"It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness."
"We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well."
"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."
"With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now."
"The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved."
"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."
"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."
"My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift."
"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when."
"I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake."
"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
"What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command."
"Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living."
"Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me."
"Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us."
"Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel."
"There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one."
"I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic."
"Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt."
"There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots."
"I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you."
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
"Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground - I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation - Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves."
"Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way."
"I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939."
"Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the window, and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes representing any scene that happened momentarily to shape itself in the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of imagination: a glimpse of sea between two rock; the rising moon, and a ship crossing its disc; a group of reeds and water-flags, and a naiad's head, crowned with lotus-flowers, rising out of them; an elf sitting in a hedge-sparrow's nest, under a wreath of hawthorn bloom."
"If there was no Cosmic Ordering then it would have been necessary to invent it."
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