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Quotes by British Authors
"I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child."
"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics."
"Take the tone of the company you are in."
"But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting."
"I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room."
"There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures."
"The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it."
"Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it."
"I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards."
"Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper."
"He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953."
"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."
"I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography."
"I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, "Nailed that one." But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning."
"Statistics is the grammar of science."
"If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that."
"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence."
"That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse."
"Conscience without judgment is superstition."
"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."
"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment."
"I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing."
"One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us."
"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."
"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
"I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others."
"Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to."
"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
"Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip."
"Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo."
"People are like the waves, all similar, none the same."
"Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise."
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