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Quotes by British Authors
"Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time."
"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."
"I love science fiction - always have."
"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as the giver, of her as the gift. Don't we in praise somehow enjoy what we praise, however far we are from it? I must do more of this."
"For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called."
"I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first."
"They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage."
"I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration."
"I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple."
"I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation."
"I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing."
"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."
"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."
"What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe."
"The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way."
"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."
"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."
"Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them."
"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."
"You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you."
"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."
"And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings."
"When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling."
"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"
"I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off."
"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."
"And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on."
"I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle."
"Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!"
"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
"Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples."
"As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul."
"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."
"When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much."
"There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial."
"Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France."
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