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Quotes by English Authors
"If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not."
"Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin."
"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
"The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth."
"But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves."
"How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart."
"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
"This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well."
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them."
"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."
"John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off."
"Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened."
"An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose."
"The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator."
"All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead."
"When you're out there with thousands of people it's probably better to have a bigger show to look at, and it turned out really well and they videoed it for me."
"This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."
"When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that."
"Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted."
"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand."
"I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here."
"Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain."
"I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks."
"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
"I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together."
"Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger."
"We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour."
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