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Quotes by English Authors
"To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of."
"I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place."
"I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me."
"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."
"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."
"Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems."
"I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek."
"The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things."
"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."
"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
"It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that."
"We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?"
"Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men."
"With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb."
"No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right."
"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
"Could be. I'm a pretty dangerous dude when I'm cornered."Yeah, said the voice from under the table, "you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel."
"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade."
"People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't."
"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it."
"Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past."
"The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique."
"As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on."
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