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Quotes by British Authors
"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
"Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels."
"A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at."
"I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about."
"Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think."
"How can we understand the world and the universe when we haven't even understood ourselves?"
"The primary factor in a successful attack is speed."
"I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind."
"I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win."
"I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard."
"Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut."
"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."
"Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity."
"The scandal with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is how it managed to obtain a construction permit to build a manned telescope in a known biologically toxic environment to workers. How many more people need to die, get injured or develop long term very high altitude sickness that will last a lifetime?"
"Time is wasted on the young and experience is wasted on the old."
"I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common."
"When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?"
"What runs through a person like water through a sieve."
"We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts."
"Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time."
"For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap."
"I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes."
"There is faith and faith. One form of faith is actual practice-the rituals and so on-the other form of faith involves actually believing in it."
"But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened."
"Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity."
"All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction."
"Only what you willingly accept can continue to be part of your life."
"It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own."
"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."
"In pure innocent love, there is no longer present contradictions."
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