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Quotes by English Authors
"I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now."
"I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous."
"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."
"And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need."
"But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied."
"You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way."
"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."
"The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter."
"The role of an actor is to make every character believable."
"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."
"The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast."
"Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit."
"I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness."
"I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid."
"I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy."
"If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday."
"The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all."
"When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire."
"Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best."
"I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that."
"So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands."
"Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't."
"It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy."
"It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination."
"I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business."
"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."
"The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same."
"Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"
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