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Quotes by English Authors
"A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house."
"There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer."
"American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring."
"I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created."
"I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11."
"We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention."
"In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie."
"The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part."
"The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there."
"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."
"If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only."
"When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape " into different countries, mores, speech patterns " but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life's subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic."
"I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate."
"For me, Company is still the best way for me to work."
"There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career."
"There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband."
"All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left."
"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"
"The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all."
"The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess."
"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
"With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue."
"The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written."
"Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not."
"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers."
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