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Quotes by English Authors
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."
"I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say."
"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."
"Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person."
"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals."
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
"The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves."
"The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio."
"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."
"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."
"I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that."
"When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low."
"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."
"Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple."
"If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned."
"Without adventure civilization is in full decay."
"I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave."
"Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value."
"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America."
"I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland."
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage."
"But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price."
"I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening."
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
"I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape."
"If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool."
"We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat."
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