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Quotes by English Authors
"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country."
"People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament."
"For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best Welcome the coming speed the going guest."
"They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed."
"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."
"And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life."
"Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."
"Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts."
"England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses."
"When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent."
"Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without."
"Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together."
"Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity."
"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."
"We all make mistakes but one has to move on."
"Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do."
"My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline."
"From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened."
"There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love."
"Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?"
"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."
"The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency."
"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean."
"Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind."
"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation."
"Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth."
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