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Quotes by English Authors
"If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance."
"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."
"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second."
"It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule."
"To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore."
"I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band."
"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."
"I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically."
"Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive."
"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."
"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."
"The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization."
"Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding."
"I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable."
"It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet."
"More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result."
"The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy."
"You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?"
"Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt."
"I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble."
"The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio."
"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."
"Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key."
"If we can modernise the workforce, make them better qualified, have this framework of qualifications, then I think they have a very good case for more money."
"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."
"It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it."
"I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process."
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