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Quotes by English Authors
"You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it."
"I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own."
"I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have."
"I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart."
"In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly."
"The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself."
"The team came together. We're looking forward to the next race."
"I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special."
"But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God."
"Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence."
"Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only."
"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know."
"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials."
"People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.The black and the black and the black."
"I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we."
"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."
"At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it."
"There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success."
"It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal."
"We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another."
"Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services."
"When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream."
"If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates."
"It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted."
"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."
"Her suspense was terrible."
"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!"
"Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little."
"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country."
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