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Quotes by English Authors
"I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work."
"Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride."
"It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, could never be completely trivial again."
"If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first."
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reasons."
"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun."
"There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad."
"Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf."
"Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart."
"Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them)."
"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."
"Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it."
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
"They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport."
"Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!"
"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing."
"I write out of my intellectual experience."
"Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality."
"Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions."
"It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something."
"Worthless as wither'd weeds."
"The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere."
"I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine."
"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."
"The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger."
"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave."
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