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Quotes by English Authors
"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."
"Success in crime always invites to worse deeds."
"People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know."
"Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again."
"But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of."
"The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?"
"His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve."
"All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted."
"There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs."
"Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative."
"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."
"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."
"My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein."
"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."
"For each of our actions there are only consequences."
"Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed."
"I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university."
"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."
"Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have."
"I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!"
"My history is really playing live - not writing or recording."
"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."
"There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily."
"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."
"Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself."
"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding."
"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."
"That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale."
"Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter."
"The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it."
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