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“I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.”
Source : "Fictional character: Chief Inspector Morse". "Inspector Morse/ The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn", www.imdb.com. 1987. 
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“I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.”
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“The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ is too common.”
Source : David Lack (1947). “Darwin's Finches”, p.129, CUP Archive
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“People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.”
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“In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the Nation the blessings of peace. The Legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the Nation in a state of War.”
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“It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.”
Source : Tammara Webber (2012). “Easy”, p.7, Penguin UK
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“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”
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“When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of energy is required to make it, and I'm not sure that it is always aggressive, but when you have a great deal of energy it can appear to be more aggressive than it is. In fact, I mean you can talk about a waterfall being aggressive, but in fact it is just a very powerful forward movement of energy, and although I think sometimes my engine house is a kind of anger.”
