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Quotes by British Authors
"Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money."
"In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew."
"It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems."
"Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?"
"My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!"
"If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went."
"There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information."
"Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime."
"He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch."
"The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it."
"I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave."
"The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence."
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."
"Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit."
"Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient."
"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution."
"There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."
"When life gets rough, never think you have failed... allow your self a quality of emotion and introspection. It is called turning inwards. When you observe and examine your mental and emotional state, from your inner core of self - you then can put things in to perspective. Don't allow your futile attempts to want to change your outer world, take a detour, and instead, change the only thing that you have the power to - your inner world. And remember: There is no such thing as failure-only learning opportunities."
"A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true."
"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
"He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone."
"There comes a time in one's life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have."
"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."
"The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else."
"WARNING: The production of spirit is a very delicate and dangerous procedure. It should be left to the professionals and under absolutely no circumstance be replicated."
"Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world."
"She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand, and it felt warm and dry. She pressed his hand gently, and his fingers returned the pressure, but only just, as he was almost asleep by then. She remembered, but not very well, what it was to fall asleep holding the hand of another; how precious such an experience, how fortunate those to whom it was vouchsafed by the gods of Friendship, or of Love. She thought she had forgotten that, but now she remembered."
"He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family."
"In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy."
"They are bright and exciting. Like America. Like its women."
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