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Quotes by English Authors
"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."
"My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history."
"A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world."
"Then must you speakOf one that loved not wisely but too well,Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought,Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,Like the base Indian, threw a pearl awayRicher than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,Albeit unused to the melting mood,Drop tears as fast as the Arabian treesTheir medicinable gum. Set you down this,And say besides that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turbaned TurkBeat a Venetian and traduced the state,I took by th' throat the circumcised dogAnd smote him thus."
"Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books."
"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
"Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to."
"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent."
"The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own."
"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
"I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it."
"Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time."
"Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies."
"My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!"
"But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud."
"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
"As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred."
"American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been."
"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
"If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own."
"Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private."
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
"For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart."
"We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own."
"I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling."
"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."
"I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry."
"Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees."
"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how."
"One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend."
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