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Quotes by English Authors
"The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read."
"I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine."
"It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."
"Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds."
"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"
"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."
"I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination."
"Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty."
"The best things carried to excess are wrong."
"I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier."
"You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true."
"Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me."
"What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S."
"I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up."
"And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it."
"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."
"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
"George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement."
"The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours."
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
"The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs."
"The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing."
"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it."
"If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences."
"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past."
"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"
"What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it."
"Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act."
"This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head."
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