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Quotes by British Authors
"I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself."
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
"Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you."
"I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years."
"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."
"I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me."
"It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears."
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
"Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly."
"Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material."
"A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources."
"We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments."
"The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think."
"The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for."
"An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign."
"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."
"Motherhood is a game you must enter with as much energy, willingness, and happiness as possible."
"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."
"I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!"
"I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them."
"Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment."
"Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived."
"Images of the Holy easily become holy images -- sacrosanct. My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks His presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example, it leads all previous idea of the Messiah in ruins."
"I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous."
"I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops."
"One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!"
"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."
"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
"All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today."
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."
"Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign."
"Two lives that once part are as ships that divide."
"The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional."
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