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Quotes by British Authors
"He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age."
"I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime."
"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston thought. "By making him suffer, he said."Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?..."
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
"Fly (poem from the book Blue Bridge)Delicate, / butterfly winged, / we vainly push against the sky, / each trying to find our place.Yes, we are going to die, / let's not beat about the bush. / Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, / maybe even years from now. Meanwhile, / we have someone who loves us, / someone to love. / Surely there is no need to hesitate."
"Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess."
"For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause."
"The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics."
"Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped. Nothing exists except in an endless present in which the Party is always right."
"I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars."
"Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping."
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
"A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims."
"The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms."
"Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past."
"Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre."
"We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us."
"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."
"The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now."
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
"If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does."
"Friends are God's apology for relations."
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
"It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy."
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
"I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television."
"The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally."
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."
"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places."
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