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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"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."
"My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!"
"I am nurtured within the womb of universal consciousness. It supports my developing awareness as I witness, engage, learn, create, exchange."
"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."
"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."
"Relationships are nine parts intuition, one part madness."
"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."
"Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination."
"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."
"I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song."
"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution."
"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
"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."
"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
"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."
"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."
"I don't count my blessings,because just being alive is good enough for me."
"In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy."
"There's no such thing as writer's block, so long as you've had plenty of time to think about what you want to write."
"That's what it's all about. We are here to walk each other home. Home to our true self ~ which is love. How we treat our self and how we have the opportunity to make others feel good about them selves, to see and bring the goodness out of them is what grows us to become a more beautiful person also."
"Grace and beauty originates from within. It is the spirit's light that glows out and make every-thing beautiful."
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