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Quotes by British Authors
"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves."
"Feeling indifferent or reserved about doing something is a signal that it is probably not correct after all."
"In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey."
"Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears."
"Cowards never dare to love."
"It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer."
"It is what we employ from the subconscious mind that is the most productive for manifesting!"
"I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved."
"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head."
"There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity."
"I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities."
"When I was researching the book Toxic Electricity, I would see biological reactions for up to a week afterwards. They are typically strong in the first day or two after the electromagnetic field (EMF) exposures and tail off as the week goes on. I would feel fine during the EMF exposures and start seeing weird health effects usually during sleep that night. Extended time around high voltage power lines & power poles were the worst for provoking reactions, followed by wifi and transmitting utility meters."
"I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment."
"The Assault Guards had one submachine-gun between ten men and an automatic pistol each; we at the front had approximately one machine-gun between fifty men, and as for pistols and revolvers, you could only procure them illegally. As a matter of fact, though I had not noticed it till now, it was the same everywhere. The Civil Guards and Carabineros, who were not intended for the front at all, were better armed and far better clad than ourselves. I suspect it is the same in all wars-always the same contrast between the sleek police in the rear and the ragged soldiers in the line."
"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
"Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me."
"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."
"You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity."
"Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness."
"Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that."
"Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on."
"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."
"The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life."
"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."
"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."
"I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy."
"The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war."
"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."
"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
"Use 'Why?' to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem."
"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."
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