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Quotes by English Authors
"The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps."
"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."
"Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."
"I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame."
"It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home."
"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
"I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament."
"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage."
"As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now."
"The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover."
"Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away."
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
"I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday."
"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."
"Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself."
"I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me."
"You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do."
"Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know."
"True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break."
"Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or more codons? It now seems fairly certain that codons do not overlap."
"There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices."
"The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures."
"I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles."
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