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Quotes by British Authors
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
"Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage."
"Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over."
"It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them."
"In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect."
"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see."
"When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there."
"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
"We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable."
"Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you."
"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
"So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'"
"It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears."
"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."
"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds."
"If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion."
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
"I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil."
"Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!"
"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order."
"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."
"With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited."
"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder."
"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."
"I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things."
"Gratitude is the vitamin of the soul."
"The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose."
"When men decided women could be educated - this is what I think - they educated them on the male plan; they put them into schools with mottoes and school songs and muddy team games, they made them were collars and ties. It was a way to concede the right to learning, yet remain safe; the products of the system would always be inferior to the original model. Women were forced to imitate men, and bound not to succeed at it."
"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."
"Playing golf is like learning a foreign language."
"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
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