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Quotes by English Authors
"The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better."
"It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all."
"You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything."
"And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive."
"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."
"Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?"
"I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer."
"Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together."
"The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly."
"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."
"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."
"I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting."
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
"Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world."
"I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business."
"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
"I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness."
"If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?"
"That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine."
"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity."
"An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain."
"It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day."
"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."
"Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else."
"I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick."
"The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan."
"The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use."
"The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting."
"I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it."
"Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it."
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