Quotes by English/England authors (page 32)

"It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light"

"I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us"

Roy Wood, Musician

"Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!"

Peter Hook, Musician

"I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers"

Elaine Paige, Musician

"An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason"

Joseph McCabe, Writer

"I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream"

Jane Birkin, Actress

"Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way"

Isaac Rosenberg, Poet

"I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality"

Julian Lennon, Musician

"The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage"

John Osborne, Playwright

"All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

"I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes"

Tom Jenkinson, Musician

"I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge"

Stuart Pearce, Coach

"Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally"

Roger Daltrey, Musician

"In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth"

Roland Allen, Clergyman

"A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's"

Richard Whately, Writer

"Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care"

Terry Prachett, Author

"I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career"

Teddy Sheringham, Athlete

"God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born"

Francis W. Newman, Writer

"The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy"

Clive Bell, Critic

"Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby"

Brian Lumley, Writer

"Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come true"

Paul Kane, Writer

"If anything's progressive, then we make progress"

Michael Giles, Musician

"He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever"

Michael Foot, Politician

"I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear"

J. B. Morton, Writer

"I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days"

Roger Moore, Actor

"What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian"

Richard Griffiths, Actor

"Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear"

Wendy Cope, Poet

"Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"I would run through brick walls for Spurs"

Graham Roberts, Actor

"When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them"

Jason Isaacs, Actor

"I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started"

Geezer Butler, Musician

"Love and a red rose can't be hid"

Thomas Holcroft, Dramatist

"Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Using the word weird implies that there is a norm"

Robyn Hitchcock, Musician

"Its no sin to cheat the devil"

Daniel Defoe, Journalist

"I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something"

Will Champion, Musician

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