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Quotes by English Authors
"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
"Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town."
"I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children."
"It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans."
"However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice."
"Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them."
"That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front."
"I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate."
"The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve."
"Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes."
"A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them."
"Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently."
"Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her."
"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."
"If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so."
"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."
"I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it."
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."
"If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble."
"Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century."
"Usually bad guys are much more fun to play and much more interesting to watch."
"A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool."
"I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroadThan, living dully sluggardiz'd at home,Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
"For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one, the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!"
"I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation."
"I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal."
"It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion."
"I enjoyed sex and indulged in it when I fancied the men."
"Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread."
"Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me."
"It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it."
"I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world."
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