Quotes by English/England authors (page 26)

"The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas"

Kevin Ayers, Composer

"Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop there every day for a year and capture how it changes, then put it all together to create an incredible image of a traditional English scene"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic"

Fred Frith, Composer

"I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it"

Fred Frith, Composer

"The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read"

Hannah More, Writer

"Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable"

Thomas More, Author

"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper"

Hannah More, Writer

"Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition"

Fred Frith, Composer

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent"

Horace Walpole, Author

"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon"

Horace Walpole, Author

"Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer"

Brian May, Musician

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is"

Horace Walpole, Author

"To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale"

A. E. Housman, Poet

"Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand"

Benny Hill, Comedian

"Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards"

Keith Richards, Musician

"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say"

A. A. Milne, Author

"It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it"

Ronald Knox, Theologian

"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"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"Please your eye and plague your heart"

William Cobbett, Politician

"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it"

William Cobbett, Politician

"Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling"

William Cobbett, Politician

"I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal"

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"The first is last, and the last is first"

Joanna Southcott, Celebrity

"My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it"

Joanna Southcott, Celebrity

"Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears"

Joanna Southcott, Celebrity

"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing"

William Congreve, Poet

"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it"

Martin Fleischmann, Scientist

"If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me"

William Congreve, Poet

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