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Quotes by British Authors
"Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again."
"I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname."
"Abundance does not come in packages, it comes from the happiness within."
"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry."
"It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me."
"I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings."
"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any."
"So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again..."
"Dad?" Jesus asked."Yes son?" God replied."Why does man have so many religions?" Jesus asked."It's because they all have different beliefs," God said."Why?" Jesus asked."It's because they have a free mind. It's up to them to choose what they wish to believe in," God said."But, what if they forget about you?" Jesus asked his dad.God replied, "Even though they may forget about me, they will always remember me. Would you ever forget me?" God asked."Never!" said Jesus, "How could I ever forget my father?""Exactly! And so it is for them," God added."
"If you lose your mind when in a large group then use someone else's!"
"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe."
"My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people."
"Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change."
"That which can happen in your future is far better than whatever happened in your past."
"The compensation of growing old...was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained - at last! - the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence, - the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light."
"Yeah, I was a local hero. It was great for me, 'cos I had a full house every night all night seven nights a week for five years that I played. The next five years I just played five days a week, but I still had a full house every night."
"The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business."
"When I was 6 I wanted to be a nurse. When I was 14 I wanted to be a spy or a lion tamer. When I was 16 I wanted too be a highwire walker or an acrobat. Or maybe a clown with a white face. Then I gave up wanting to be anything other than what I am and what I am is a woman with a woman's needs and a woman's desires."
"She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink."
"Some things are too big to be seen, some emotions are too huge to be felt."
"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."
"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry."
"There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own."
"We do not write as we want but as we can."
"When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is."
"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
"There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent."
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