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Quotes by English Authors
"It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up."
"One thing that success has taught me is censorship."
"I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all."
"I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it."
"Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work."
"Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days."
"I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular."
"These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world."
"Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be."
"In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers."
"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."
"What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow."
"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."
"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."
"Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been."
"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up."
"Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year."
"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard."
"Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten."
"Mathematics is the music of reason."
"I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues."
"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
"He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience."
"Bad thing upon bad thing upon bad thing until you can't take anymore, and then it's off to the nearest multistory car park in the family hatchback with a length of rubber tubing. Surely that's fair enough? Surely the coroner's report should read, "He took his own life after sober and careful contemplation of the fucking shambles it had become."
"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity."
"Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument."
"Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things."
"I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it."
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