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Quotes by English Authors
"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave."
"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."
"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."
"There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making a commitment is it. Finish. You think it sets like a concrete platform and it'll take any strain you want to put on it. You're committed. You don't have to prove anything. In fact you can afford a little neglect, indulge in a little bit of sarcasm here and there, isolate yourself when you want to. Underneath it's concrete for life. I'm a cow in some ways, but you're an idiot."
"I love himnot because he's handsomebut because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
"In the Universe it may be that Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth."
"Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore."
"I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know."
"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."
"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself."
"Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins."
"Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling."
"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man."
"There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination."
"It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it."
"More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause."
"When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious."
"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
"Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace."
"A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics."
"I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change."
"She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said: "You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!" The judge stroked his chin. He murmured in a slightly ironic voice: "My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts."
"When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that."
"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."
"By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering."
"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
"Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them."
"I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother."
"I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!"
"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."
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