Quotes by British Authors - Page 168

Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.
Johnny Rich
There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.
Kevin Ashton
That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time.
Poppy Adams
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')
Neil Gaiman
There is an arch supported by four vast columns. Etched over hundreds and hundreds of yards of stone, furlongs of stone, there are names: "Who are these, these? The men who died in this battle?""No. The lost, the ones they did not find. The others are in the cemeteries.""These are just the ... the unfound." When she could speak again. From the whole war?"The man shook his head. "Just these fields."Elizabeth sat on the steps. "No one told me. My God no one told me,
Sebastian Faulks
It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.
Abigail Tarttelin
No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have beenSince Good, though only thought,Has life and breath -God's life - can always be redeemed from death.And evil in its nature is decay,And any hour may blot it all away.The hope that lost in some far distance seems,May be the truer life, and this the dream.
Adelaide Anne Procter
Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth.
Sarah Dunant
[The materialist] thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.
G.K. Chesterton
And my head told my heart"Let love grow"But my heart told my head"This time noThis time no
Mumford & Sons
Share too much and someone can hurt you.
Dorothy Koomson
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
J.K. Rowling
I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.
E.M. Forster
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
John Lennon
I want my name to mean me.
Mark Haddon
Every soul has the essence of the Divine truth and love within them
Mimi Novic
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold Geneen
I got it wrong – I was singing for myself when I should have been singing for you all. - Burt
Jamie Scallion
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
E.M. Forster
In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king
Michael Grant
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
Ruby Wax
Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.
Penelope Leach
never say never. whoops - said it twice
Harry Hill
Working hard is important, but there's something that matters even more. Believing in yourself. Think of it this way: Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now. Students. If they can do it, why not us?
J.K. Rowling
There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.
Jeanette Winterson
Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.
Nicholas Boothman
Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know.
Aldous Huxley
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way.
Christopher Hitchens
There are always loose ends in real life.
Robert Galbraith
To fight with demons, your intent must be pure. And even then, there's no guarantee you'll win.
Simon R. Green
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.
W.H. Auden
All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another.
Selma Dabbagh
The point of the list wasn't just to tick items off and forget about them, it was to learn something new.
Lindsey Kelk
Thoughtful for Winter’s future sorrow,Its gloom and scarcity;Prescient to-day, of want to-morrow,Toiled quiet Memory.’Tis she that from each transient pleasureExtracts a lasting good;’Tis she that finds, in summer, treasureTo serve for winter’s food.And when Youth’s summer day is vanished,And Age brings Winter’s stress,Her stores, with hoarded sweets replenished,Life’s evening hours will bless.
Charlotte Brontë
Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises," he said. "Like water, they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of life. I believe your dream will come true if only because you will not compromise on it and let it go too lightly.
Mary Balogh
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
Adam Ant
Fuck.Major fuck fuck fuckity fuck.Fuck
Giovanna Fletcher
The true function of sex is to bring more love into the world.
Diana Richardson
In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.
Lemmy Kilmister
To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.
Bertrand Russell
I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
Jeanette Winterson
An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.No. 75
Alexander Hamilton
It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.
George Eliot
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life.That word is love."(Sophocles)by Adam Harford, Duke of Harford,from the last page of "Sophie's Salvation
Janet Aylmer
A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!""I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice, who was a very truthful child; "but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.""I don't believe it," said the Pigeon; "but if they do, then they're a kind of serpent: that's all I can say.
Lewis Carroll
The brighter the sunlight, the worse it affects them," said Einstein."So we got to pay more attention to the weather forecast," said DogNut. "Cloudy with a chance of zombies.
Charlie Higson
The USA has a long history of radiation damaging workers health.
Steven Magee
God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else--something it never entered your head to conceive--comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be Go without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side.
C.S. Lewis
I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal life' you turned to me, 'I don't want sure and certain hope I want sure and certain Bee.
Rosamund Lupton
The best of what we are lies in what we hope to be
A.C. Grayling
A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [... It] induces a modd that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state of mind.
John Blofeld
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
Terry Pratchett
That boy may have been born on third base but he sure as shit ain’t scored a triple.
Sarah Hall
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.
Richard Dawkins
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.
Bede Griffiths
What you learn is often determined by what you need to know. If you think you're weak, you will learn that you are strong. If you think you are indestructible, you will learn that you are fragile. In the end though, you will learn that you are human. You are no more and no less than all those who are learning their lessons as you learn yours.
John Bingham
Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight.
Horatio Nelson
Control is an advertising concept.
Andrew Miller