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Quotes by English Authors
"There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment."
"And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography."
"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
"But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table."
"He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life."
"I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor."
"In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea."
"An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead."
"The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all."
"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."
"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
"What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does."
"Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us."
"You're fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it's obvious you're nobody. You haven't got as much talent as you thought you had, and there was no Plan B, and you got no skills and no education, and now you're looking at forty or fifty years of nothing. Less than nothing, probably. That's pretty heavy. That's worse than having the brain thing, because what you got now will take a lot longer to kill you. You've got the choice of a slow, painful death, or a quick, merciful one."
"It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already."
"It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?"
"A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty-and, by which definition, a philosopher-dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security."
"Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men."
"The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead."
"Not long ago Congress voted, with much patriotic rhetoric, for the imposition of severe penalties upon anyone presuming to burn the flag of the United States. Yet the very Congressmen who passed this law are responsible, by acts of commission or omission, for burning, polluting, and plundering the territory that the flag is supposed to represent. Therein, they exemplified the peculiar andperhaps fatal fallacy of civilization: the confusion of symbol with reality."
"Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today."
"I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars."
"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."
"The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious."
"Tell the Government, our people shall not starve."
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
"In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs."
"Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable."
"Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action."
"I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years."
"Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning."
"He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about."
"Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey."
"Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood."
"If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet."
"All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing."
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
"I used to do this as a kid. And now they're paying me for it, which is cool."
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