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Quotes by Welsh Authors
"I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!"
"Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed."
"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics."
"I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have."
"No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues."
"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
"We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier."
"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
"I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better."
"There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind."
"Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament."
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."
"Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy."
"Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven."
"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
"When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered."
"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down."
"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."
"Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd."
"The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised."
"A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed."
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."
"Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee."
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