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Quotes by British Authors
"Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo."
"Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise."
"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
"Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.''I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me', said he."
"My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio."
"Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children."
"Among many people with you, but I only can see you."
"I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me."
"It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism."
"I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost."
"A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her."
"We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected."
"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."
"There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you."
"You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that."
"I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!"
"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason."
"Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young."
"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"
"But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed."
"I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records."
"Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom."
"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size."
"We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed."
"The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected."
"When we are born our eyes open onto the world.When we learn the truth about the world we choose to close our eyes to the world around us.And when we die, we open our eyes for that last time to see that in our ignorance, we could have changed the world for all to see."
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
"It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal."
"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor."
"I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter."
"All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy."
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