British Quotes

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.