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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate."
"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."
"Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children."
"It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism."
"Time alone helps us to remember who we are."
"Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation."
"Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!"
"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."
"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
"I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?"
"You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about."
"Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck."
"The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive."
"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
"In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it's Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third play, it's crisis every day, an overlapping series of only just negotiable horrors. It's climbing and climbing. Then a sudden abrupt fall - within days."
"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."
"Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually."
"At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything every disappointment every failure and every betrayal which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship."
"I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it."
"I have no talent; it's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time."
"The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money."
"People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching."
"I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you."
"One lesson I learned from all of this, and that was a hard one, for all of the good I did people, it was never remembered. I was the one doing jail, not them. Apart from a small circle of close loyal friends, I was and am on my own."
"It's just, there's something compelling about very beautiful people. Especially strong-jawed men with stubble and intense eyes. You fall under their spell and believe anything they say."
"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
"It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal."
"Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now."
"Believe in the potential of obtaining or achieving a desire."
"We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer."
"Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue."
"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."
"I am haunted by my past and by what I must do to ensure my future."
"I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard."
"You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps."
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