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Quotes by British Authors
"People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately."
"You can judge me all you want, but it's just ridiculous coz we're both part of the same universe. Let's just ride the horses into the meadow and let them roll in the delightful grass."
"Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk."
"Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam."
"It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart."
"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."
"Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter."
"I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else."
"My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio."
"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"
"The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage."
"Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams."
"It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism."
"The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture."
"Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry."
"We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected."
"Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That's only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds " as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history."
"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel."
"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow."
"A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty."
"There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement."
"Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum."
"I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive."
"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."
"Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise."
"Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it."
"I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic."
"If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory."
"In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers."
"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."
"Your choices can only be limited by your mind."
"I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month."
"I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability."
"Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be if and when you get there is still the same. Success will be a painful path and an empty trophy without self acceptance, self worth or if littered with self hate."
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