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Quotes by English Authors
"Susan's gotta poker, you know," it said, as if anxious to be helpful. WELL, WELL. INDEED. MY GOODNESS ME. week she picked up a bogey by its nose."Death tried to imagine this. He felt sure he'd heard the sentence wrong, but it didn't sound a whole lot better however he rearranged the words."
"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."
"The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation."
"This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants."
"During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it."
"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."
"If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management."
"But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated."Why one makes such a fuss about things," Anthony suggested. "All that howling and hurrahing and gnashing of teeth. About the adventures of a self that isn't really a self-just the result of a lot of accidents. And of course," he went on, "once you start wondering, you see at once that there is no reason for making such a fuss. And then you don't make a fuss-that is, if you're sensible. Like me," he added, smiling."
"I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about whining for ever--and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked and attend to your own happiness?"
"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."
"There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd."
"Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that."
"It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance."
"Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives."
"You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous."
"Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings."
"Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep."
"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."
"In fact there is only your own instinct? Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong."
"I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten."
"I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries."
"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."
"The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."
"One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty."
"Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia."
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken."
"You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs."
"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama."
"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something."
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
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