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Quotes by British Authors
"The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing."
"South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated."
"And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting."
"Make sure your not followed! Don't go anywhere."
"Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally."
"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."
"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."
"There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing."
"I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art."
"Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century."
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
"The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world."
"It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them."
"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."
"I've never been thrown out of a pub, but I've fallen into quite a few."
"True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn."
"All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work."
"Popular applause veers with the wind."
"Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China."
"You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do."
"The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant."
"I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving."
"As you embrace Christmas, you embrace the magnitude of your life's journey & purpose."
"What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'"
"A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing."
"In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!"
"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."
"If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion."
"It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it."
"What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?"
"When your partner is regularly going out to bars and nightclubs and does not come home until after sunrise, it is likely that they are engaging in some form of infidelity."
"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA."
"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."
"Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre."
"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
"On BeautyNo, we could not itemize the listof sins they can't forgive us.The beautiful don't lack the wound.It is always beginning to snow.Of sins they can't forgive usspeech is beautifully useless.It is always beginning to snow.The beautiful know this.Speech is beautifully useless.They are the damned.The beautiful know this.They stand around unnatural as statuary.They are the damnedand so their sadness is perfect,delicate as an egg placed in your palm.Hard, it is decorated with their faceand so their sadness is perfect.The beautiful don't lack the wound.Hard, it is decorated with their face.No, we could not itemize the list. Cape Cod, May 1974."
"It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen."
"The reason they don't ask me when they're having kids, of course, is because men can, pretty much, carry on a normal life once they've had a baby."
"The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results."
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
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