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Quotes by English Authors
"I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me."
"Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents."
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
"The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization."
"I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really."
"The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss."
"In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth."
"This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire."
"It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet."
"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
"I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools."
"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."
"I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable."
"There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink."
"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side."
"I do not like Melbourne in its present state."
"There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine."
"A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows."
"By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people."
"His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum."
"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."
"'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force."
"I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal."
"In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience."
"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."
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