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Quotes by English Authors
"Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts."
"It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot."
"I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ."
"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."
"It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."
"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
"I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely."
"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
"If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that."
"I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France."
"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."
"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."
"We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great."
"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."
"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."
"I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up."
"At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova."
"And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing."
"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events."
"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."
"I would rather make my name than inherit it."
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
"I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful."
"A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar."
"It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true."
"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
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