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Quotes by British Authors
"We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist."
"I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!"
"We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie."
"I have always been honest about my recollection of events."
"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."
"I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids."
"You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them."
"If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid."
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."
"Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good."
"Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically."
"Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride."
"If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens."
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
"Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it."
"I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights."
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
"I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played."
"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."
"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."
"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."
"Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves."
"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
"You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense."
"The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde."
"What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?"
"St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return."
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