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Quotes by British Authors
"Human requirements are the inspiration for art."
"You didn't fail, you just didn't use Cosmic Ordering."
"I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history."
"A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets."
"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?"
"Very high altitude observatories are a known worker health hazard."
"Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach."
"In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it."
"You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line."
"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."
"I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination."
"Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent."
"I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first."
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."
"I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail."
"Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics."
"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."
"Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage."
"That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve."
"I try and play 2 or 3 times a week to stay on my game."
"I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers."
"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained."
"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."
"Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression."
"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
"There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount."
"I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered."
"It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor."
"The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy."
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