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Quotes by English Authors
"I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music."
"I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go."
"Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind."
"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language."
"These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more."
"My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics."
"Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow."
"Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves."
"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing."
"We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called."
"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."
"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
"My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success."
"And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning."
"God did not give you the spirit of cowardice."
"Despite all the identifying, measuring, photographing, I had managed to set the experience in a kind of present past, a having looked, even as I was temporally and physically still looking...It is not necessarily too little knowledge that causes ignorance; possessing too much, or wanting to gain too much, can produce the same result."
"I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark."
"Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."
"My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything."
"California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort."
"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."
"When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it."
"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it."
"I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely."
"I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."
"In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing."
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