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Quotes by British Authors
"It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual."
"It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat."
"England is always remaking herself, her cliffs eroding, her sandbanks drifting, springs bubbling up in dead ground. They regroup themselves while we sleep, the landscapes through which we move, and even the histories that trail us; the faces of the dead fade into other faces, as a spine of hills into the mist."
"Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them."
"Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company."
"Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it."
"Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation."
"Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix."
"It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it."
"Your consistency says a lot about your commitment."
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
"People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile."
"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy."
"Love, love, love, love is all you can do, even in the face of bitterness, pain, anger, confusion, it's the only thing to keep you steady and stop you biting back."
"There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement."
"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."
"Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story."
"All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies."
"I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive."
"I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care."
"The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about."
"When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers."
"Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise."
"I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people."
"Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually."
"A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power."
"Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship."
"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power."
"Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read."
"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."
"I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did."
"To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles."
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