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Quotes by British Authors
"Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of man's soul; of his determination, thought Mr. Bentley, sweeping round the cedar tree, to get outside his body, beyond his house, by means of thought, Einstein, speculation, mathematics, the Mendelian theory, away the aeroplane shot."
"God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return."
"An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face."
"Bring your heart power into play to create the things that you wish in your life through energising your desires with your heart energy."
"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."
"You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turning away from God to seek states of mind, and trying to produce those states of mind by 'maistry'."
"I stand out not because I am six feet tall,But because I feel six feet tall."
"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."
"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
"You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want."
"The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly."
"I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun."
"Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor."
"It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest."
"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
"It's a huge responsibility being a solo act."
"The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense."
"The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy."
"Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record."
"There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind."
"Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures."
"I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?"
"We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody."
"I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree."
"Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda."
"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."
"The USA government encourages gun ownership at the same time as they have allowed environmental radiation levels to become ridiculously high powered and this continues to increase annually. It will be interesting to see where this government experiment eventually takes the USA!"
"It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline."
"Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material."
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