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Quotes by British Authors
"When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike."
"It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do."
"It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration."
"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."
"Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we're allowed to explore the side streets."
"I have never heard of an electromagnetically hypersensitive person recovering from the condition using shielding and Faraday cages, they just seem to become social lepers due to their increasing reactivity to the city environment and addicts to their shielded environment."
"Love frees my thoughts and deeds."
"You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place!"
"Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment."
"I am somewhat exhausted, I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?"
"I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."
"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."
"Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!"
"I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly."
"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."
"Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely."
"Mention but the word "divinity," and our sense of the divine is clouded."
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."
"Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity."
"I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression."
"Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music."
"The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want."
"When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?"
"When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child."
"The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable."
"There is rarely a chance for life to remain constant."
"I wish I had only offered youa sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I've a use for it.''And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.''Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.''Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence.''Just let me look at the cash.''No, sir; you are not to be trusted."
"War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days."
"Art is the refreshing source of existence."
"I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing."
"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."
"Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves."
"But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets."
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