Quotes by English/England authors (page 34)

"I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really"

"I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics"

Alvin Lee, Musician

"It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again"

Adrian Edmondson, Actor

"We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade"

A. P. Herbert, Statesman

"Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people"

John Selden, Statesman

"No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going"

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"I've got a good right hook"

Julie Andrews, Actress

"I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers"

William Ames, Philosopher

"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is"

Steven Morrissey, Musician

"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality"

Benjamin Jowett, Theologian

"Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die"

Anne Boleyn, Royalty

"The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority"

Francis Crick, Scientist

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion"

Harold MacMillan, Politician

"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

"Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character"

Jacqueline Bisset, Actress

"I don't even own my own name on the internet - somebody else bought it"

Cat Deeley, Celebrity

"I never felt any different from anyone else though"

Louise Brown, Celebrity

"Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind"

Isaac Pitman, Inventor

"A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability"

Frank Whittle, Inventor

"If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine"

John Harrison, Inventor

"I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946"

James Meade, Economist

"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth"

Alfred Marshall, Economist

"The men have long been unpaid and need relief"

John Hawkins, Businessman

"I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography"

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well"

Oliver Reed, Actor

"Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff"

Adrian Lyne, Director