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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."
"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system."
"Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing."
"I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas."
"We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics."
"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall."
"Take the tone of the company you are in."
"The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape."
"I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart."
"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."
"The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it."
"I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't."
"To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations."
"I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards."
"In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight."
"Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger."
"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."
"Statistics is the grammar of science."
"In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other."
"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."
"I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest."
"Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception."
"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible."
"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am."
"As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless."
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