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Quotes by British Authors
"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"
"Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close."
"With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!"
"I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war."
"Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States."
"It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples."
"That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve."
"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places."
"This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules."
"Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?"
"Your brand is the value and magic that's not in your bottle, body or box. It's the inspiration, incense, intent and impact before, within and beyond."
"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."
"Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens."
"When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration."
"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."
"No, Jar Jar Binks was fine by me but probably went on a little bit too long. When they were in trouble and were battling, it should have been more serious and it became a bit too silly."
"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
"Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!"
"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."
"The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure."
"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."
"I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it."
"It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor."
"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."
"So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?"
"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."
"An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign."
"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA."
"Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness."
"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."
"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."
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