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Quotes by English Authors
"...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion."
"But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix."
"We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions."
"Dan Nilsson even remarks of compound eyes that 'It is only a small exaggeration to say that evolution seems to be fighting a desperate battle to improve a basically disastrous design."
"Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it."
"This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe."
"The pleasure-house is dust:-behind, before,This is no common waste, no common gloom;But Nature, in due course of time, once moreShall here put on her beauty and her bloom.She leaves these objects to a slow decay,That what we are, and have been, may be known;But at the coming of the milder day,These monuments shall all be overgrown."
"They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams!"
"Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself."
"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."
"Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."
"O, let my books be then the eloquenceAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast;Who plead for love, and look for recompense,More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit."
"Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period."
"House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all."
"As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role."
"Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third."
"Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up."
"It was a red-flannel chest-protector, one of those large quasi-hygienic objects that with pills and medicines take the place of beneficial relics and images among the Protestant peoples of Christendom."
"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."
"Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them."
"At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder."
"He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to."
"That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself."
"Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends."
"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."
"When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens."
"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."
"All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I'm beginning to see why people don't do it more often."
"Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast."
"He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant."
"Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre."
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