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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living."
"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."
"I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane."
"News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this."
"Bring your heart power into play to create the things that you wish in your life through energising your desires with your heart energy."
"There is faith and faith. One form of faith is actual practice-the rituals and so on-the other form of faith involves actually believing in it."
"When you only focus on your goals you never see any obstacles."
"It is what we employ from the subconscious mind that is the most productive for manifesting!"
"The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be."
"I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me."
"I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s."
"Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?"
"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."
"Heart language is logic set on fire."
"Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts."
"Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness."
"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."
"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."
"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."
"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."
"I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not."
"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
"Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!"
"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."
"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth."
"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."
"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
"The house cleared, I shut myself in, fastened the bolt that none might intrude, and proceeded-not to weep, not to mourn, I was yet too calm for that, but-mechanically to take off the wedding dress, and replace it by the stuff gown I had worn yesterday, as I thought, for the last time. I then sat down: I felt weak and tired. I leaned my arms on a table, and my head dropped on them. And now I thought: till now I had only heard, seen, moved-followed up and down where I was led or dragged-watched event rush on event, disclosure open beyond disclosure: but now, I thought."
"If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished."
"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
"I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light."
"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."
"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
"No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."
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