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Quotes by English Authors
"This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation."
"The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves."
"It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest."
"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."
"I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism."
"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."
"I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day."
"There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what's causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far is that it's us."
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
"I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium."
"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting."
"I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."
"A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners."
"You can cut the tension with a cricket stump."
"The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party."
"My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way."
"I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized."
"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"
"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."
"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
"The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die."
"There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see."
"As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway."
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
"This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural."
"Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding."
"People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward."
"I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are."
"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
"Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists."
"The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the queen died of grief, that is a story that he was interested."
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