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Quotes by English Authors
"Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker."
"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking."
"A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
"That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls."
"They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest."
"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
"One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself."
"I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life."
"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."
"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."
"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter."
"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."
"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."
"There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations."
"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
"It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare."
"The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses."
"Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour."
"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."
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