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Quotes by English Authors
"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."
"At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers."
"When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous."
"That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth."
"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
"The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all."
"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."
"All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me."
"In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better."
"I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days."
"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."
"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."
"As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people."
"This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly."
"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."
"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
"It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were."
"Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures."
"I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been."
"You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have."
"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic."
"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears."
"Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with his poisoned cocktail! Anyone might have drunk it! It might have been me!""There is an even more terrible possibility that you have not considered," said Poirot. "Eh?""It might have been me," said Hercule Poirot."
"It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual."
"It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994."
"I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this."
"This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam."
"Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture."
"The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame"
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