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Quotes by British Authors
"I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street."
"I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit."
"Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential."
"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so."
"Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks."
"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."
"A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be."
"When Gregory says, 'Are they guilty?' he means, 'Did they do it?' But when he says, 'Are they guilty?' he means, 'Did the court find them so?' The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away."
"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."
"Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft..."
"Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil."
"If you can't make ends meet, meet them in the middle instead."
"Everyone's face is odd, because we only get one."
"Change your life! Wake up and smell the Cosmic Ordering success."
"Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing."
"People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt."
"Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!"
"Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
"There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now."
"I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself."
"Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates."
"It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?"
"A woman's heart and a woman's dreams are malleable and can change at any moment. It is the essence of being a woman."
"I like stories where women save themselves."
"I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want."
"Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could."
"I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that."
"The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter."
"The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular."
"That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous."
"Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it."
"Many critics are born of envy."
"As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by their affection."
"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."
"Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner once I saw the hills of Fife across the Forth, things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives."
"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible."
"Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody."
"We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that."
"Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time."
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