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Quotes by British Authors
"There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long."
"Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there is an escape, to more peaceful and gentler places, and a happier state of mind."
"And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches."
"Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them."
"If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women."
"Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States."
"I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers."
"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself."
"It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them."
"I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics."
"Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new-made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion."
"People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have."
"When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing."
"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."
"In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect."
"When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy."
"Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally."
"You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do."
"We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are."
"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."
"I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light."
"In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them."
"In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes."
"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."
"Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization."
"Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them."
"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
"The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real."
"No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."
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