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Quotes by English Authors
"You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations."
"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
"Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs."
"Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel."
"I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity."
"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."
"No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest."
"Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art."
"Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting."
"For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most."
"It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source."
"Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment."
"I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty."
"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly."
"Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either."
"In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game."
"Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are."
"It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision."
"Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world."
"I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology."
"If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!"
"I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again."
"To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit."
"We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually."
"You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it."
"Rincewind stared, and knew that there were far worse things than Evil. All the demons in Hell would torture your very soul, but that was precisely because they valued souls very highly; evil would always try to steal the universe, but at least it considered the universe worth stealing. But the gray world behind those empty eyes would trample and destroy without even according its victims the dignity of hatred. It wouldn't even notice them."
"Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings."
"Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society."
"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"
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