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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."
"Creative people need strong encouragement."
"Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living."
"Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly."
"But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu..."
"Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed."
"Surrender to fate and you will never be fully contented."
"Variability has potential to create confusion."
"The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader."
"There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber, she explained. "There's a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere-it doesn't all get used up at once. "I may still be hung over, sighed Richard. "That almost made sense."
"News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this."
"The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you."
"Communication is the breath or death of any relationship."
"Just resolve to shine, constantly and steadily, like a warm lamp in the corner, and people will want to move towards you in order to feel happy, and to read things more clearly. You will be bright and constant in a world of dark and flux, and this will save you the anxiety of other, ultimately less satisfying things like 'being cool', 'being more successful than everyone else' and 'being very thin'."
"We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone."
"I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton."
"I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me."
"It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species."
"A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind - for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything - void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself."
"Mad people are very emotionally orientated! They have complex feelings, they're easily upset, but are also easy to please! Most mad people have lonely lives, as nobody understands them. So they become "Lost Souls." They dream a lot. Go within their minds to search - some will turn strange, become dangerous. So a madman is created! His world becomes a mission."
"You didn't fail, you just didn't use Cosmic Ordering."
"A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets."
"It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone."
"Smart radiation researchers use radiation resistance health techniques in order to offset the known biological harm of their toxic radiation exposures."
"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."
"Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."
"My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing."
"I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph."
"I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination."
"The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs."
"I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to."
"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."
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