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Quotes by British Authors
"I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things."
"We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother."
"Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore."
"Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception."
"As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless."
"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."
"In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!"
"I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen."
"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."
"We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us."
"Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves."
"Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now."
"I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all."
"In the world of lovers, there is no fear."
"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."
"Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over."
"Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator."
"If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured."
"Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam."
"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."
"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."
"It's not that they're small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It's not that they're small. It's that we're so far away."
"It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment."
"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."
"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."
"I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative."
"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."
"You are a child of the universeCome to choose how to live here.You are a child of the universeLoved beyond measure."
"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
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