top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by English Authors
"When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday."
"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."
"It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death."
"Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them."
"However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747."
"I am not my body. My body is nothing without me."
"The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it."
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
"You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something-it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that."
"All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not."
"To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life."
"At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject."
"We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps us not at all to thread the labyrinth each individual presents in his involution of feelings, desires and capacities; and we must resemble, in quickness of feeling, instinctive sympathy, and warm benevolence, the lovely daughter of Huntley, before we can hope to judge rightly of the good and virtuous of our fellow-creatures."
"Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too."
"The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition."
"I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part."
"May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life."
"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."
"Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent to his presence."
"Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled."
"Silence is sometimes the severest criticism."
"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."
"A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature."
"The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit."
"Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet."
"Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives."
"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."
"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."
"We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed."
"There are various levels above and below the human through which the individual soul may pass in the course of its reincarnations-the angelic, the titanic, the animal, the purgatories, and the realm of the frustrated ghosts."
bottom of page