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Quotes by British Authors
"There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work."
"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."
"Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"
"Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter."
"I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same."
"We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years."
"I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see.something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself."
"That's what we wanted to get across in that moment, particularly when Shaun goes to the shop when he's all hung over. He doesn't notice any of the zombies around him just because he never had before, so why should he at that point?"
"But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can."
"When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed."
"I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image."
"Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye."
"I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally."
"I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!"
"In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think."
"Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this. It was while I was in this position, the blood rushing to my temples, that the door swung open."
"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth."
"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."
"He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason."
"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."
"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."
"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature."
"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
"When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government."
"Old age is not just for grown up's."
"I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent."
"I am beautiful, one with cosmos, life force, eternal abundance, joy, vitality, infinite consciousness."
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