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Quotes by English Authors
"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."
"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed."
"It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create."
"And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself."
"If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that."
"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."
"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."
"Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left."
"Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area."
"My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl."
"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
"Dinner was made for eating, not for talking."
"Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!"
"By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being."
"We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?"
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies."
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
"And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them, now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness."
"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."
"Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body."
"The cross is the centre of all this in every respect."
"I will not debate with you Dark Elf. By the swords of the Noldor alone are your sunless woods defended. Your freedom to wander there wild you owe to my kin and but for them long since you would have laboured in thraldom in the pits of Angband. And here I am King and whether you will it or will it not my doom is law. This choice is given to you: abide here or to die here and so also for your son."
"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
"I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children."
"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."
"Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
"Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days."
"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."
"It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations."
"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 do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."
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