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Quotes by English Authors
"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment."
"To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god."
"Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home."
"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar."
"Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly."
"As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made."
"Originality is undetected plagiarism."
"As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow."
"It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years."
"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."
"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
"I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure."
"Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image."
"Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease."
"Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs."
"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."
"The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond."
"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."
"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
"There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well."
"She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape."
"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"
"For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand."
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
"A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race."
"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England."
"Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news."
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