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Quotes by English Authors
"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"
"Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true."
"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary."
"You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks."
"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
"It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style."
"The folly of one man is the fortune of another."
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
"POLONIUS : My Lord, I will use them according to their desert.HAMLET : God's bodykins man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty."
"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."
"It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic."
"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
"I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for."
"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
"That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon."
"Could be. I'm a pretty dangerous dude when I'm cornered."Yeah, said the voice from under the table, "you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel."
"A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything."
"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."
"Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers."
"To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead."
"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce."
"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights."
"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."
"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."
"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
"And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing."
"That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer."
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."
"An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering."
"Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped."
"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."
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