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Quotes by English Authors
"I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character."
"The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side."
"They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors."
"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."
"I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me."
"I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom."
"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."
"I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us."
"Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue."
"Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'."
"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."
"I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one."
"I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics."
"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame."
"We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals."
"Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created."
"The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close."
"A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady."
"You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better."
"I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time."
"I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed."
"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."
"Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation."
"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
"Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live."
"I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music."
"Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world."
"Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day."
"I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count."
"Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class."
"God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction."
"I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended."
"The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them."
"I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano."
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