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Quotes by British Authors
"Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring."
"Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me."
"Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves."
"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."
"I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle."
"Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness."
"Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin."
"We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along."
"Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film."
"I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?"
"So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known."
"Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won."
"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish."
"To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin."
"What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade."
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way."
"I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills."
"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
"Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book."
"Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned."
"Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds."
"You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes."
"Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I."
"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."
"The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?"
"The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment."
"I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation."
"People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city."
"The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out."
"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
"But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting."
"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."
"I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street."
"Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one."
"You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else."
"There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things."
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