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Quotes by English Authors
"Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment."
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances but cannot bring into being the substance itself."
"We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops."
"I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair."
"It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole."
"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible."
"We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally."
"The success and the failure are not my concern, but His."
"Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure " attractively packaged but inferior in content."
"I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it."
"We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens."
"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
"I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year."
"Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying."
"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible."
"Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers."
"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space."
"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah."
"He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others."
"There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination."
"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
"The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe."
"I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be."
"I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third."
"Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record."
"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth."
"I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special."
"If there is no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know."
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