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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game."
"It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart."
"I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will."
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
"When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done."
"Before Mags became a household name across Scotland, it was during the mid Nineties when she became an avid anti-paedophile campaigner against paedophiles on the Raploch Estate, attracting media attention, even appearing on Robert Kilroy-Silk's morning TV show. At the height of her anti-paedophilic crusade, she led a howling mob of protesters to a hostel near her home where a known paedophile was staying."
"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."
"I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look."
"Eight months in the woods have hardened me, or at least firmed up my beliefs that if a man's going to fend for himself, then he needs to leave his credit card at home."
"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"
"The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments."
"Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them."
"A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur."
"But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself."
"Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams."
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
"It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism."
"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."
"All selling should spring from service."
"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
"There comes a time in one's life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have."
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
"You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances."
"I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye."
"Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far."
"Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows."
"I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen."
"Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength."
"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."
"I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care."
"As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to."
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