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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies."
"I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter."
"Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it."
"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
"The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment."
"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."
"I'm not altogether sure what I'm going to do for that. I think it will be a lot more low key than the other two I've done. Dare I say it, a bit more relaxing."
"Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."
"The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation."
"Life is a state of give and take."
"I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this."
"The scandal with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is how it managed to obtain a construction permit to build a manned telescope in a known biologically toxic environment to workers. How many more people need to die, get injured or develop long term very high altitude sickness that will last a lifetime?"
"Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does."
"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."
"The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil."
"All enchantments die; only cowards die with them."
"Do not delude yourself, tomorrow is not guaranteed; and even if good fortune brings you your tomorrow, there is no guarantee those you love will be a part of it. Do not squander your precious, limited time. Value what love you have in your life - nothing is more valuable. Make it known to those who matter."
"An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face."
"Each of us channel through the rest of us, which is true on every plane of being and in every field of enterprise and in all walks of life."
"Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. "I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world.""Nonsense, child; you ll think your husband better.""Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order."
"As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away."
"Only what you willingly accept can continue to be part of your life."
"We've had our ups and downs since then, but that's what families have, ups and downs."
"Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."
"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."
"A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind - for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything - void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself."
"Sometimes I stare into a pool of piss, I see my reflection, I picture a hole in my face, there's nothing there, it's vanished. I watch the maggots turn to flies, and they fly off with bits of flesh from my body. I attempt to wipe it clear from my mind, but the nice thoughts get swallowed up. I can't think nice for too long-it would destroy me."
"There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own."
"My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing."
"In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy."
"I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!"
"You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity."
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