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Quotes by English Authors
"As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock."
"There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them."
"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
"A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable."
"History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time."
"I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him"only to bring him to life."
"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality."
"I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring."
"Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?"
"I never worry about action, but only inaction."
"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."
"A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract."
"When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing."
"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."
"And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem."
"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."
"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device."
"Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."
"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them."
"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
"Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica."
"The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!"
"In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim."
"If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating."
"A husband without faults is a dangerous observer."
"Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it."
"The men I find myself attracted to are the ones who don't say anything and are quite shy."
"The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant."
"Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune."
"I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up."
"If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?"
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