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Quotes by British Authors
"An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys."
"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."
"He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work."
"Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That's only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds " as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history."
"I'll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of."
"Besides, I seemed to hold two lives-the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter."
"In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing."
"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."
"The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals."
"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."
"You know, he said. "I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do. There was silence, in the high place."
"We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct."
"To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time."
"It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat."
"I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: "Oh, but you forget the good God." Apparently they conceive of the Deity add a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes."
"The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects."
"I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get."
"It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue."
"A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is."
"The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get."
"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."
"A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims."
"Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander."
"I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there."
"I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies."
"I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower."
"He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers."
"After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela."
"How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me."
"You are the universe - that's why it shines!"
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
"What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it."
"I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years."
"So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out."
"Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen."
"I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner."
"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."
"Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight."
"Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess."
"It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy."
"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!"
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