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Quotes by British Authors
"I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way."
"I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music."
"Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart."
"It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south down that part of Faerie had once been a giant, who grew so huge and so heavy that, one day, worn out from the sheer effort of moving and living, he had stretched out on the plain and fallen into a sleep so profound that centuries passed between heartbeats."
"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."
"Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth."
"I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching."
"In other words, Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get on with a very few simple ideas about God. But it is not so now. Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones - bad, muddled, out-of-date ideas. For a great many of the ideas about God which are trotted out as novelties to-day are simply the ones which real Theologians tried centuries ago and rejected."
"Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon."
"Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie."
"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics."
"What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe."
"In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times."
"There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double."
"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man."
"Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion."
"So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?"
"History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen."
"I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them."
"For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character."
"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."
"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."
"The USA government encourages gun ownership at the same time as they have allowed environmental radiation levels to become ridiculously high powered and this continues to increase annually. It will be interesting to see where this government experiment eventually takes the USA!"
"We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories."
"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art."
"A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man."
"Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement."
"Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning."
"I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week."
"Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London."
"I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home."
"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."
"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
"The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers."
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