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Quotes by English Authors
"I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas."
"The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world."
"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."
"I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden."
"It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict."
"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul."
"There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion."
"My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed."
"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
"The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts."
"People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins."
"No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion."
"Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme."
"There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets."
"One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated."
"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."
"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
"I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'"
"Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it."
"There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls."
"Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers."
"Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow."
"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
"Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top."
"It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse."
"'m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day."
"Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs."
"I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire."
"I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better."
"There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible."
"Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous."
"I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away."
"Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are."
"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
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