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Quotes by British Authors
"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it."
"I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of."
"With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now."
"The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved."
"In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me."
"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."
"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when."
"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."
"The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link."
"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself."
"The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl."
"You're talking about gold and silver, cash and securities. I'm talking about the sheer beauty of the land, the value of unpolluted parkland made wild and staying wild forever."
"One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life."
"Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one's memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another."
"As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills."
"The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage."
"Where there is no consciousness, there is no time."
"I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost."
"Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed."
"Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry."
"You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God."
"My mind," he said, "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. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world."
"I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older."
"The most successful people I know are also the most reliable."
"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.""
"It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night."
"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication."
"In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty."
"A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms."
"There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it."
"I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours."
"What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?"
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