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Quotes by English Authors
"I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time."
"But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business."
"In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment."
"It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility."
"God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen."
"A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties."
"Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes."
"There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do."
"But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared."
"There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid."
"When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part."
"Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits."
"I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death."
"It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true."
"The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex."
"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."
"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."
"All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself."
"A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man."
"It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job."
"Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure."
"The discipline of desire is the background of character."
"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in."
"Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy."
"At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction."
"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
"Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust."
"She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract."
"A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?"
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