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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"No two stories are the same. They may seem the same at first glance, but, once you take a closer look, give the story some of your time, you realise its unique qualities."
"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months."
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
"You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth."
"Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity."
"There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore."
"Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour."
"The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods."
"That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is."
"Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books."
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
"I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance."
"There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial."
"We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?"
"Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?"
"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."
"Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself."
"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
"Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep."
"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
"These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next."
"And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless."
"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it."
"Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes."
"All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better."
"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."
"A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it."
"How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?"
"The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress."
"Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing."
"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."
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