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Quotes by British Authors
"My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden."
"Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, "By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash."
"There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home."
"Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is."
"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."
"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.'"
"We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable."
"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."
"I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?"
"He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."
"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
"And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?"
"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."
"Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale."
"You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you."
"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."
"A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest."
"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."
"He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them."
"I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in."
"I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre."
"The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life."
"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
"Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there."
"I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice."
"Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me."
"There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again."
"It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in."
"We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along."
"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine."
"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."
"It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation."
"If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth."
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