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Quotes by British Authors
"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."
"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
"It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor."
"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."
"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."
"I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings."
"I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off."
"Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities."
"Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm."
"It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue."
"I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would."
"Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin."
"Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash."
"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."
"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds."
"I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse."
"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."
"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul."
"I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!"
"I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights."
"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."
"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."
"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order."
"Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted."
"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."
"I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight."
"I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value."
"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."
"All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds."
"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven."
"I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room."
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