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Quotes by English Authors
"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'."
"When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!"
"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake."
"We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me."
"It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured."
"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"
"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
"I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for."
"Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed."
"What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities."
"It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing."
"It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse."
"To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now."
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
"Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels."
"From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford."
"Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge."
"There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily."
"Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren't as easily accessible, but that's OK; you change the key."
"This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film."
"The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do."
"There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places."
"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."
"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."
"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."
"With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing."
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