top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by British Authors
"The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy."
"Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities."
"At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered."
"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
"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."
"A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible."
"Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat."
"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."
"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
"These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next."
"All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all."
"I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes."
"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system."
"The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it."
"You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory."
"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven."
"I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!"
"A master of improvised speech and improvised policies."
"Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
"To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations."
"For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing."
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."
"Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love."
"It's technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor -- biting down on a wooden spoon, so as not to disturb the men's card game -- before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field."
"We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing."
"I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills."
"By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb."
"When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top."
"Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it."
"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
bottom of page