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Quotes by English Authors
"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best."
"If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good."
"No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there's always something to be learned. It's just that, every now and again, you hit a patch of reading that makes you feel as if you're pootling about. But what can you do about it? We don't choose to waste our reading time; it just happens. The books let us down."
"Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases."
"We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are."
"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"
"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction."
"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."
"To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful."
"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
"It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still."
"It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it appears that the Western mistrust of human nature-whether theological or technological-is a kind of schizophrenia. It would be impossible, in their view, to believe oneself innately evil without discrediting the very belief, since all the notions of a perverted mind would be perverted notions."
"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
"Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo."
"I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with."
"The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living."
"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."
"But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way."
"It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics."
"The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory."
"Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact."
"I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that."
"I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September."
"He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on his thick slice of bread, and cut off chunks with a clasp-knife, poured his tea into his saucer, and was happy."
"We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us."
"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
"Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad."
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