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Quotes by British Authors
"If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that."
"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."
"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."
"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?"
"To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there."
"In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep."
"I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there."
"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."
"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."
"I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring."
"Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance."
"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
"In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!"
"Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living."
"One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot."
"Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times."
"A photograph may speak to the photographer's envy or disappointment just as much as it may reveal his anger or disapproval. And even if a photograph records a joyous occasion, behind it there may still be more than a small measure of heartbreak on the part of the photographer. A small measure of heartbreak? One might think such a thing is impossible--if your heart is broken, then surely it is broken completely. Yet the truth is that we can live with a minor fault-line in the heart--most of us do, in one way or another."
"Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us."
"Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we're allowed to explore the side streets."
"Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise."
"It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment."
"Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example."
"Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you."
"As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples."
"For that thought to be strong, however, it must be free of doubt, for doubt weakens the will, weakens the response of the universe, and slows the manifestation of desire."
"I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go."
"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
"Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed."
"If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears."
"Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues."
"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."
"If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!"
"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
"You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you."
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
"No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers."
"No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by."
"I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner."
"I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records."
"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."
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