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Quotes by British Authors
"It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues."
"In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two."
"It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy."
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."
"The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him."
"Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride."
"Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions."
"You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish."
"People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement."
"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."
"I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this."
"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers."
"Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past."
"It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child."
"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."
"Life is an open book, with the potential to become whatever can be comprehended."
"We are so blinkered by progress, so preoccupied with where we want to go and how fast we can travel, that many of us have lost the ability to simply 'stop'."
"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."
"It's when you smell the breeze, taste the salt and feel the waves beneath your feet that you truly know that you are alive."
"I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin."
"Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight."
"Very few people that have installed solar photovoltaics (PV) on their home have realized that by spending an additional five thousand dollars that they can completely disconnect from the electrical utility."
"I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen."
"You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!"
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."
"I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head."
"Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can."
"It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."
"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."
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