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Quotes by British Authors
"How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline."I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave.""Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline."Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back."
"It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?"
"I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits."
"I like stories where women save themselves."
"What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives."
"Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society."
"Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life."
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
"A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'"
"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."
"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
"It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child."
"I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do."
"I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see.something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself."
"Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people."
"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."
"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not."
"Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date."
"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
"I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq."
"Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself."
"I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic."
"To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes."
"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship."
"We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us."
"I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do."
"When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government."
"Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future."
"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."
"What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years."
"Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already."
"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."
"It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration."
"Be oblivious to city high-rises, work-related stress and microwave popcorn."
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