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Quotes by English Authors
"Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone."
"Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them."
"Religion is the last refuge of human savagery."
"I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow."
"I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me."
"It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet."
"I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football."
"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."
"When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away."
"A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult."
"When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour."
"I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar."
"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."
"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."
"As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it."
"The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it."
"There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country."
"Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead."
"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."
"And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels."
"Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater."
"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly."
"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."
"But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away."
"Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed."
"The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses."
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