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Quotes by British Authors
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."
"I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world."
"As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul."
"There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore."
"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."
"Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived."
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."
"Images of the Holy easily become holy images -- sacrosanct. My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks His presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example, it leads all previous idea of the Messiah in ruins."
"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane."
"Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians."
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."
"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."
"When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27."
"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."
"All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds."
"The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out."
"Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had."
"They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press."
"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."
"In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other."
"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied."
"The more you give the less your poor."
"The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them."
"I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds."
"You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying."
"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
"On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from."
"Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better."
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