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Quotes by English Authors
"He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do."
"I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a car-not so common among undergraduates in those days-and I had some money. I wasn't ugly; and even more important, I had my loneliness, which, as every cad knows, is a deadly weapon with women. My 'technique' was to make a show of unpredictability, cynicism, and indifference. Then, like a conjurer with his white rabbit, I produced the solitary heart."
"Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes."
"I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants."
"The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole."
"The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it."
"I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me."
"Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else."
"I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps."
"Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares."
"You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve."
"Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet."
"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."
"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
"Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind."
"Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick."
"The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain."
"Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass."
"When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies."
"The only way I'd have gone was if it would better my career, I would not have gone just for the money. The point was to go to a club that could win trophies."
"I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause."
"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."
"If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?"
"So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well."
"I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain."
"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over."
"Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others."
"That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will."
"The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains."
"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."
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