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Quotes by British Authors
"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters."
"It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed."
"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation."
"Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life."
"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."
"It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them."
"Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English."
"All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise."
"Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested."
"The biggest surprise that I had during my time in high altitude astronomy was being prevented from arranging a free Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) onsite evaluation to assist with bringing the observatory into OSHA compliance by the upper management team that I reported to."
"The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money."
"What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?"
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up."
"The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world."
"I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'."
"Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either."
"I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test."
"I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack."
"Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign."
"When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds."
"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."
"One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other."
"Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours."
"A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels."
"I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others."
"It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become."
"Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk."
"Being in touch with the natural world is crucial."
"A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself."
"There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course."
"Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves."
"The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey."
"Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate."
"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."
"The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart."
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