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Quotes by English Authors
"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."
"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."
"The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't."
"In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers."
"Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method."
"I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all."
"We took a straight course up the great snow ridge."
"Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe, that was almost an article of faith among scientists."
"It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all."
"Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death."
"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."
"What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?"
"I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress."
"Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret."
"Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose."
"There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late."
"If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean."
"Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel."
"You would hate people if you were like me. If you weren't wanted."
"If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them."
"Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God."
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.''Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence. 'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome," he said."
"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
"I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it."
"I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused."
"It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation."
"I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims."
"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
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