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Quotes by English Authors
"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."
"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."
"Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell."
"The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique."
"It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows."
"They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good."
"The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss."
"Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man."
"We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN."
"Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there."
"Use that fluff of yours you call a brain."
"Then the Dean repeated the mantra that has had such a marked effect on the progress of knowledge throughout the ages."Why don't we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens? he said.And Ridcully responded with the traditional response."It's got to be worth a try, he said."
"There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind."
"Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
"The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions."
"You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones."
"When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow."
"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."
"There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair."
"What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye."
"Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem."
"Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past."
"Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them."
"Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos."
"Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures."
"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong."
"I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool."
"Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing."
"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."
"I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book."
"And we forget because we must and not because we will."
"The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous."
"Why be seduced by something as small as a front door in another country? Why fall in love with a place because it has trams and its people seldom have curtains in their homes? However absurd the intense reactions provoked by such small (and mute) foreign elements may seem, the pattern is at least familiar from our personal lives. There, too, we may find ourselves anchoring emotions of love on the way a person butters his or her bread, or recoiling at his or her taste in shoes. To condemn ourselves for these minute concerns is to ignore how rich in meaning details may be."
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