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Quotes by British Authors
"True love can be overwhelming, and sometimes painful. It is a kaleidoscope of emotions, all sorts of different colours blending together into one. It's gravity so powerful - an unstoppable force. True love is a natural muse; you will puzzle over it, dream about it, and be lost in it. It consumes you wholeheartedly."
"Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand."
"Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper."
"With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights."
"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."
"I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen."
"People don't change just because you know more about them."
"If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way."
"Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way."
"I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways."
"I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!"
"I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine."
"The most useless are those who never change through the years."
"Popular applause veers with the wind."
"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."
"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."
"The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts."
"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."
"MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic."
"Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going."
"A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants."
"What happens in the dark should not be brought to light."
"Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance."
"Many critics are born of envy."
"We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day."
"We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that."
"Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred."
"I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack."
"The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on either side of the fireplace. Standing on the rug between us, with his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely tinged with gray, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a nobleman who is in truth noble."
"Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign."
"In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense."
"I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all."
"I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others."
"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."
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