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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game."
"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."
"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets."
"The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom."
"The shelves were supposed to be loaded with books-but they were, of course, really doors: each book-lid opened as exciting as Alice putting her gold key in the lock. I spent days running in and out of other worlds like a time bandit, or a spy. I was as excited as I've ever been in my life, in that library: scoring new books the minute they came in; ordering books I'd heard of-then waiting, fevered, for them to arrive, like they were the word Christmas."
"Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing."
"Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary."
"He was being about as protective as a can-opener."
"Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me."
"Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters."
"Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?"
"If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans."
"When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued."
"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."
"We celebrate beauty in life and all its possibility so we open it up for others and at the same time for ourselves."
"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder."
"Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart."
"From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself."
"Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it."
"Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?"
"The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?"
"What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity."
"Oh-my-Father-and-oh-the-delight-of-my-eyes," began the young man, muttering the words very quickly and sulkily and not at all as if the Tisroc were the delight of his eyes."
"Love is to feel your breath."
"Life really can become whatever you are prepared to make it."
"I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher."
"My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule."
"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."
"There are always ways to control your environment."
"Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes."
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