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Quotes by British Authors
"People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching."
"Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity."
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
"Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart."
"Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination."
"JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military."
"Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks."
"God would never make man in his image,because that would then make him as vain as what man is."
"Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?"
"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
"All the wealth in the world is nothing, pointless - of no true value - if you yourself feel worthless."
"Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants."
"The primary factor in a successful attack is speed."
"I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling."
"A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem."
"Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same."
"If we fear failure, how then will we handle success?"
"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
"Creative people need strong encouragement."
"Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut."
"Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat."
"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."
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."
"Time is wasted on the young and experience is wasted on the old."
"Reality is just a matter of perception."
"A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime's memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller's window."
"Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised."
"In high altitude astronomical facilities we routinely discharged large amounts of nitrogen gas into closed spaces. We were never informed by the astronomy management team about the abnormally low oxygen environments that the use of liquid nitrogen creates, how long term exposure to it manifests itself in human health and the resulting abnormal mental behaviors."
"Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed."
"Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it."
"I advise people to be careful about taking advice from long term Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) victims. If they have had it for decades and have not cleared it up, then you can discount what they have to say regarding curing the condition. However, they are an excellent resource on the biological harm of electromagnetic fields (EMF), EMF avoidance and low EMF products."
"Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold."
"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."
"Pink colors my world red!"
"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."
"Authenticity is hard to fake."
"The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New."
"Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms."
"My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule."
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