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Quotes by British Authors
"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex."
"We seem to think we have some control over this planet."
"I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance."
"The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers."
"I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift."
"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."
"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
"He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work."
"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
"If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets."
"I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you."
"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."
"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement."
"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart."
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
"We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us."
"Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words."
"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."
"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love."
"There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth."
"Life is an open book, with the potential to become whatever can be comprehended."
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
"Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine."
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
"The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine."
"Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it."
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