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Quotes by English Authors
"I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade."
"If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that."
"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."
"Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising."
"It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act."
"A scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. So it is meaningless to ask: which is real, "real" or "imaginary" time? It is simply a matter of which is the more useful description."
"Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it."
"To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation."
"It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's."
"Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at see, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us. Catastrophe has become art; but this is no reducing process. It is freeing, enlarging, explaining. Catastrophe has become art: that is, after all, what it is for."
"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"
"To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress."
"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language."
"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child."
"And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you."
"We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked."
"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."
"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."
"With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far."
"An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity."
"You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!"
"People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me."
"Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end."
"When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed."
"The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried."
"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."
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