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Quotes by British Authors
"You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit."
"I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on."
"I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady."
"When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th."
"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
"It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you."
"You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage."
"I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue."
"Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples."
"For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery."
"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."
"Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts."
"I was into playing American music, especially the blues."
"I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil."
"Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment."
"The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you."
"The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present."
"Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs."
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."
"I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin."
"The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic."
"Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs."
"The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security."
"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."
"There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."
"In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy."
"You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off."
"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."
"The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life."
"What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it."
"As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed."
"We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves."
"But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that."
"All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today."
"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
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