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Quotes by English Authors
"Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough."
"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."
"The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place."
"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."
"Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."
"Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living."
"No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free."
"I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others."
"He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up and marched past his brain in terrified obedience. Division and multiplication were discovered. Algebra was invented and provided an interesting diversion for a minute or two. And then he felt the fog of numbers drift away, and looked up and saw the sparkling, distant mountains of calculus."
"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen."
"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."
"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."
"But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?"
"There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them."
"I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach."
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
"I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse."
"You are the call and I am the answer,You are the wish, and I the fulfilment,You are the night, and I the day. What else? It is perfect enough. It is perfectly complete. You and I, What more-? Strange, how we suffer in spite of this!"
"I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people."
"Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself."
"So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die.""Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried."What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round."No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all."
"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."
"I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive."
"Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out."
"It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand."
"At the end of the day I'm pleased with the site I created."
"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."
"Arthur was frequently baffled by the complacency with which people went on with what they insouciantly called their lives, as if both the word and the thing made perfect sense to them."
"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means."
"There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions."
"There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise."
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