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Quotes by British Authors
"We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance."
"Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?"
"For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing."
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
"He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953."
"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."
"I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate."
"I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills."
"When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top."
"Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts."
"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence."
"You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do."
"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied."
"A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist."
"Conscience without judgment is superstition."
"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"
"She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape."
"Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next."
"The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing."
"All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise."
"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
"You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying."
"On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from."
"Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better."
"We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we're sleeping,There's no escape from this obsession."
"Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself."
"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
"I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about."
"Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over."
"You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another."
"I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it."
"Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation."
"I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym."
"I was moved beyond words. The train ride over the mountains from lake Titticaca to Cusco reminded me of Africa where I grew up; and 4 days walking on the Inca Trail, then more in the jungle, just magnificent - time, space, and splendour. Our planet is superb!"
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