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Quotes by British Authors
"A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin."
"I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through."
"Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made."
"One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me."
"Thou shalt not search with desire; because the real treasures, they, will remain forever hidden from you."
"A photograph may speak to the photographer's envy or disappointment just as much as it may reveal his anger or disapproval. And even if a photograph records a joyous occasion, behind it there may still be more than a small measure of heartbreak on the part of the photographer. A small measure of heartbreak? One might think such a thing is impossible--if your heart is broken, then surely it is broken completely. Yet the truth is that we can live with a minor fault-line in the heart--most of us do, in one way or another."
"This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes."
"Life is an open book, with the potential to become whatever can be comprehended."
"We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think."
"Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play."
"It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is."
"A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous."
"Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men."
"Before Mags became a household name across Scotland, it was during the mid Nineties when she became an avid anti-paedophile campaigner against paedophiles on the Raploch Estate, attracting media attention, even appearing on Robert Kilroy-Silk's morning TV show. At the height of her anti-paedophilic crusade, she led a howling mob of protesters to a hostel near her home where a known paedophile was staying."
"You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea."
"Fare thee well! and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well."
"But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
"If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it."
"It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something."
"The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture."
"But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him."
"There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling."
"A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
"He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn."
"When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them."
"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
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