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Quotes by British Authors
"I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped."
"Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions."
"An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!"
"He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory."
"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
"I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you."
"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."
"In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake."
"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."
"London is the clearing-house of the world."
"Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!"
"However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing."
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
"Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel."
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
"They are bright and exciting. Like America. Like its women."
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
"What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it."
"Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately."
"You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you."
"The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day."
"In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing."
"George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!"
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
"It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others."
"I'm not altogether sure what I'm going to do for that. I think it will be a lot more low key than the other two I've done. Dare I say it, a bit more relaxing."
"I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable."
"An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face."
"You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!"
"I desire the world - therefore I have it."
"The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity."
"I found it all very scary. This fairytale gets built around you - as if you've been walking through the streets and then Sydney Pollack sees you and goes, 'I'll put you in something!'"
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