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Quotes by English Authors
"It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages."
"Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary."
"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."
"I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion."
"I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result."
"Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist."
"The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure."
"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."
"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."
"If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days."
"Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it."
"Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!"
"Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress."
"Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate."
"Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now."
"Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them."
"I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!"
"This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade."
"I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers."
"I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow."
"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
"I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed."
"The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love."
"It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock."
"He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration."
"It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all."
"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."
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