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Quotes by British Authors
"You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead."
"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"
"What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?"
"They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict."
"Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength."
"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."
"Lose weight, eat backwards."
"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."
"My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!"
"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements."
"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."
"If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it."
"I have never heard of an electromagnetically hypersensitive person recovering from the condition using shielding and Faraday cages, they just seem to become social lepers due to their increasing reactivity to the city environment and addicts to their shielded environment."
"I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool."
"Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves."
"Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live."
"Big or small, be ready to do your part when you dare to dream and you will be rewarded with success from the Universe."
"I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth."
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."
"In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation."
"A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
"Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things."
"He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn."
"You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go."
"You are a child of the universeCome to choose how to live here.You are a child of the universeLoved beyond measure."
"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."
"Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient."
"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
"It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea."
"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."
"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution."
"Don't eat the bread unless you want to leave bread crumbs."
"Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix."
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