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Quotes by British Authors
"One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much."
"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."
"In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it."
"We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves."
"I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me."
"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
"Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young."
"The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want."
"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."
"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."
"I have a pretty good handle on my anxiety. I basically treat myself like a nervy horse: lots of exercise, lots of sleep, lots of interesting work to keep my mind occupied, and generally avoiding being ridden hard by strangers."
"Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity, our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations."
"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size."
"Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again."
"The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected."
"I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy."
"A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at."
"All the wealth in the world is nothing, pointless - of no true value - if you yourself feel worthless."
"Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there."
"By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero."
"Life is a state of give and take."
"It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends."
"Don't waste your whole lifetime waiting for the perfect life when there's a perfectly good one within and right in front of you."
"And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
"There is always a need to understand that others don't think the way that you do."
"She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics."
"The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New."
"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."
"Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. "I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world.""Nonsense, child; you ll think your husband better.""Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order."
"Feeling indifferent or reserved about doing something is a signal that it is probably not correct after all."
"As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away."
"It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures standing with their backs against the window appear against the branches of a spreading tree. With a shock of emotion one feels 'There are figures without features robed in beauty'. In the pause that follows while the ripples spread, the girl to whom one should be talking says to herself, 'He is old'. But she is wrong. It is not age; it is that a drop has fallen; another drop. Time has given the arrangement another shake. Out we creep from the arch of the currant leaves, out into a wider world. The true order of things - this is our perpetual illusion - is now apparent. Thus in a moment, in a drawing-room, our life adjusts itself to the majestic march of day across the sky."
"There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity."
"When I was researching the book Toxic Electricity, I would see biological reactions for up to a week afterwards. They are typically strong in the first day or two after the electromagnetic field (EMF) exposures and tail off as the week goes on. I would feel fine during the EMF exposures and start seeing weird health effects usually during sleep that night. Extended time around high voltage power lines & power poles were the worst for provoking reactions, followed by wifi and transmitting utility meters."
"We are not worthy to unloose the latchets of Jesus' shoes, because, if we do, we begin to say to ourselves, "What great folks are we; we have been allowed to loose the latchets of the Lord's sandals." If we do not tell somebody else about it with many an exultation, we at least tell ourselves about it, and feel that we are something after all, and ought to be held in no small repute."
"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."
"Human requirements are the inspiration for art."
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