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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong."
"In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer."
"Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda."
"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
"The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again."
"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."
"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
"While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker."
"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."
"I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases."
"If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time."
"A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat."
"We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now."
"Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child."
"There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week."
"It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way."
"There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk."
"I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it."
"We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future."
"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
"What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it."
"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."
"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it."
"I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal."
"It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible."
"I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet."
"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."
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