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Quotes by British Authors
"I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done."
"At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety."
"I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science."
"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
"The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading."
"One morning at the end of the two years, as I was writing a letter to his dictation, he came and bent over me, and said--"Jane, have you a glittering ornament round your neck?" I had a gold watch-chain: I answered "Yes." "And have you a pale blue dress on?I had. He informed me then, that for some time he had fancied the obscurity clouding one eye was becoming less dense; and that now he was sure of it."
"Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye."
"I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it."
"The crowd paid little or no respect to every player out there tonight."
"These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar."
"The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal."
"By priming your subconscious mind you are allowing it to run in the background, and that way you are actually sending out positive thoughtforms from your subconscious in the waking state!"
"So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'"
"We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now."
"But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot."
"I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon."
"George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar."
"I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'"
"If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all."
"Music is escapism, it's entertainment."
"Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true."
"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion."
"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
"I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification."
"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
"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."
"George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create."
"A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it."
"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh."
"In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice."
"A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible."
"One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything."
"The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security."
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