"My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not care. I want to really go beyond this materialistic world...not for the sake of enjoyment, entertainment, no. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards Space."

“I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.”

Source : "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

“General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.”

“My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.”

Source : Quoted in Glenys Kinnock and Fiona Millar (eds) By Faith and Daring (1993).

“Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.”

“I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist of essential importance in the way he analyzes the past.”

Source : "The Scientific Character of Geology" by Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, The Journal of Geology, Vol. 69, No. 4 (pp. 453-463), July 1961.

“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.”

“One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.”

Source : "Sold, for two truckloads of oranges" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.