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Quotes by British Authors
"On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration."
"I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine."
"Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive."
"While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker."
"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."
"Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about."
"There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness."
"The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain."
"The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle."
"I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all."
"The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were unable to open. I listed the places where I hurt, and how much. My loins felt ripped. Something inside had torn. There were seven places on my body where he had sunk his fangs into my skin and bitten. He'd dug his nails into my neck, and twisted my head to one side, and clawed my face. I hadn't made a noise. He had made all the noise for both of us. Had it hurt him?"
"I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them."
"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
"The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher."
"I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one."
"When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace."
"Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves."
"A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly."
"He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them."
"It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country."
"I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious."
"The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life."
"We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen."
"For most people the environment controls them rather than being in full control of experiences."
"Would I come off as a creepy-stalker-kind-of-guy or would it demonstrate that I cared?"
"Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash."
"There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again."
"We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along."
"A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society."
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