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Quotes by English Authors
"In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted."
"Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way."
"That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation."
"I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder."
"But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much."
"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."
"I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century."
"The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things."
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
"As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities."
"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."
"We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters."
"I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted."
"In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet."
"I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water."
"Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour."
"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."
"Down to Gehenna or up to the throne He travels the fastest who travels alone."
"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."
"I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things."
"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."
"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
"To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness."
"I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland."
"I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five."
"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
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