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Quotes by British Authors
"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
"The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day."
"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."
"We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely."
"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."
"When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities."
"In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes."
"Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment."
"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
"We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable."
"Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury."
"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
"Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically."
"I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello."
"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
"What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it."
"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man."
"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals."
"At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered."
"When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate."
"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."
"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."
"My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama."
"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."
"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."
"I would like a cappuccino," says Linus politely. "Thank you.""Your name?""I'll spell it for you," he says. "Z-W-P-A-E-N--""What?" She stares at him, Sharpie in hand."Wait, I haven't finished. Double F-hyphen-T-J-U-S. It's an unusual name, Linus adds gravely. "It's Dutch."
"What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world."
"Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it."
"I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much."
"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."
"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order."
"They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?"
"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder."
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