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Quotes by English Authors
"The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse."
"There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall."
"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."
"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child."
"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
"Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems."
"Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously."
"Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also."
"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence."
"I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored."
"An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man."
"I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage."
"I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask."
"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason."
"With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make one single performance which has a lot of detail."
"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
"For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes."
"For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back."
"There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery."
"Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality."
"Music is a performance and needs the audience."
"We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space."
"We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf."
"All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content."
"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like."
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