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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"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."
"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."
"As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting."
"The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences."
"Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat."
"Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos."
"If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless."
"What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity."
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing."
"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"
"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."
"I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible."
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
"There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside."
"Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived."
"It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist."
"Our society's need for escapism has always interested me."
"Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81."
"I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?"
"Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."
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