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Quotes by British Authors
"...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle - solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scented the darkness."
"Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over."
"The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good."
"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months."
"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."
"No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was."
"I was into playing American music, especially the blues."
"Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won."
"Christmas comes but once a year, starts in August ends in July."
"To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin."
"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."
"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else."
"In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth."
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way."
"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."
"Calm sailing doesn't come from calm waters, it comes from having a good navigator; a good crew and a good vessel."
"Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain."
"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship."
"There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds."
"The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in."
"I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more."
"At work, or anywhere in life, people should be a team, working for the best of all, not protecting individual egos."
"We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance."
"But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half."
"Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."
"Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process."
"I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time."
"The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard'. The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable."
"I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas."
"Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground...All the same, it is His invention, not ours...All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden...An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula."
"The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising."
"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."
"I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street."
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