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Quotes by English Authors
"What was in it for me? I wasn't asking for any sort of reciprocation, after all. Why didn't she want her erogenous zones stimulated? I have no idea. All I know is that you could, if you wanted to, find the answers to all sorts of difficult questions buried in that terrible war-torn interregnum between the first pubic hair and the first soiled Trojan."
"The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road."
"I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth."
"I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses."
"The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion."
"I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong."
"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's."
"It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme."
"I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess."
"I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost."
"Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else."
"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."
"It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way."
"Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse."
"If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that."
"There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make."
"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
"I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close."
"I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart."
"Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent."
"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters."
"I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming."
"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."
"Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men."
"Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!"
"Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere."
"Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies."
"Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton."
"One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on."
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