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Quotes by British Authors
"The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved."
"Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft..."
"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."
"Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image."
"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."
"In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight."
"Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger."
"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."
"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation."
"Statistics is the grammar of science."
"All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work."
"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing."
"Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!"
"Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
"I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself."
"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied."
"We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music."
"I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits."
"In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!"
"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."
"Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself."
"It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls, and it's something that every young woman who has painful menstruation should be aware of ... it's a condition that is curable if it's caught early. If not, if it's allowed to run on, it can cause infertility, and it can really mess up your life.[Author Hilary Mantel on being asked about being a writer with endometriosis, Nov 2012 NPR interview]"
"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."
"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."
"When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!"
"As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained."
"I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake."
"If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job."
"Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody."
"My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton."
"However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing."
"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university."
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