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Quotes by English Authors
"Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people."
"A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are."
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."
"No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12."
"But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby."
"Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!"
"Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark."
"Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things."
"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
"When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation."
"So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right thing, and with in two hours find something to feel guilty about."
"Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time."
"There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward."
"Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark."
"There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert."
"The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't."
"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues."
"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."
"Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence."
"I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes."
"It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose."
"The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena."
"Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?"
"Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue."
"Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter."
"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources."
"If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls."
"But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it."
"People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before."
"Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time."
"Calumny is a vice of curious constitution trying to kill it keeps it alive leave it to itself and it will die a natural death."
"A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing."
"Grief is only the memory of widowed affections."
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