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Quotes by English Authors
"A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other."
"Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human."
"Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand--that and such hope as I bring."
"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer."
"One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it's worth while seeking him half your daysIf you find him before the other.---The Thousandth Man."
"In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me."
"A coward's fear can make a coward valiant."
"I don't know whether I'm, like, jumping the gun but it's possible that in the future we may be able to use the information that we can't receive at the moment."
"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
"No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin."
"All rising to great places is by a winding stair."
"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
"I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel."
"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."
"I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain."
"One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'."
"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
"Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible."
"What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together."
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
"I would rather make my name than inherit it."
"Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh."
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."
"I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown."
"Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion."
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