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Quotes by British Authors
"We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist."
"Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter."
"I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running."
"Ignoring phone calls leads to a simple life with more free time. Ignoring emails works well also! I do both when I am trying to get things done."
"Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical " there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there?"
"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
"Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts."
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
"Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference."
"I have always been honest about my recollection of events."
"No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman."
"Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility."
"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"
"If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them."
"The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in."
"I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest."
"Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing."
"I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable."
"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."
"I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction."
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
"I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax."
"I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do."
"Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity."
"I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom."
"But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?"
"A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee."
"The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem."
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