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Quotes by British Authors
"A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee."
"The stuff you bring back from dreams is free."
"Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes."
"I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky."
"You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own."
"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it."
"Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love."
"Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating."
"Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression."
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
"I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light."
"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."
"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."
"The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way."
"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man."
"George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar."
"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals."
"Music is escapism, it's entertainment."
"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."
"Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me."
"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."
"As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth."
"I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me."
"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 think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home."
"The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters."
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