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Quotes by British Authors
"I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart."
"There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world."
"Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression."
"We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance."
"With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights."
"Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason."
"I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen."
"That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand."
"Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect."
"I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways."
"In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight."
"Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things."
"It's very important my parent's don't think I'm starting to fall in love with people, because then they might notice that I'm growing up, and I'm kind of trying to keep it a secret. I think it will cause an incident."
"The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look."
"Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it."
"The most useless are those who never change through the years."
"It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain."
"It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity."
"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."
"In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk."
"Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space."
"I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake."
"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty."
"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"
"There's no greater show on earth than observing human nature."
"Would a rose still be a rose without its thorns? We need to embrace both our Light as well as our Dark side, and to let them come out to play to become whole, with out them or denying them and not admitting, we are denying the most important things and aspects in our life. Every side of us helps protect and teach us."
"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
"I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang."
"The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true."
"If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job."
"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."
"Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way."
"Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time."
"In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense."
"I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people."
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