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Quotes by English Authors
"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
"The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world."
"I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers."
"Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person."
"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather."
"I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well."
"She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together."
"The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate."
"I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar."
"Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning."
"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
"The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed."
"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
"I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention."
"I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character."
"Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too."
"I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates."
"I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it."
"Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest."
"This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties."
"To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance."
"My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano."
"I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries."
"When soul meets soul on lovers' lips."
"You see, the catch about portrait painting-I've looked into the thing a bit- is that you can't startpainting portraits till people come along and ask you to, andthey won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first.This makes it kind of difficult for a chappie."
"Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so."
"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us."
"He's 85 and he's met another woman. Still, at 85, why ever not?"
"You never know how you're going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of the States."
"Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't."
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