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Quotes by British Authors
"When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike."
"The light within us dances when we smile."
"Lose weight, eat backwards."
"You can judge me all you want, but it's just ridiculous coz we're both part of the same universe. Let's just ride the horses into the meadow and let them roll in the delightful grass."
"Eight months in the woods have hardened me, or at least firmed up my beliefs that if a man's going to fend for himself, then he needs to leave his credit card at home."
"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
"Among many people with you, but I only can see you."
"We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself."
"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."
"I wanted to be successful, not famous."
"You ask me if I do not think that men are strange beings - I do indeed, I have often thought so - and I think too that the mode of bringing them up is strange, they are not half sufficiently guarded from temptation - Girls are protected as if they were something very frail and silly indeed while boys are turned loose on the world as if they - of all beings in existence, were the wisest and the least liable to be led astray."
"You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show."
"My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol."
"Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues."
"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead."
"I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila."
"If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going."
"The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable."
"One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive."
"All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy."
"If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object."
"I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to."
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