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Quotes by English Authors
"What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others."
"It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid."
"How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold."
"Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write."
"They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers."
"He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore."
"Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers."
"Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything."
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
"A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her."
"Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes."
"They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!"
"If it wasn't for Mick, the group would've fallen apart a long time ago."
"A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him."
"A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on."
"Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big."
"We may be a small island, but we are not a small people."
"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common."
"Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable."
"It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement."
"It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery."
"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that."
"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."
"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it."
"To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind."
"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."
"On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier."
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