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Quotes by English Authors
"There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously."
"Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings."
"There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme."
"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."
"Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do."
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."
"We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects."
"In fact it was altogether an odd dog, of uncertain breed, or breeds. It was large and black, but its hair was tufty, its body scrawny and clumsy, and its manner edgy, anxious, verging on the completely neurotic. Whenever it came to a halt for a moment or so, the business of starting up again often seemed to cause it trouble, as if it had difficulty in remembering where it had left each of its legs."
"Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third."
"I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations."
"I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them."
"O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take."
"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
"It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box."
"'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger."
"I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too."
"New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed."
"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction."
"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."
"Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."
"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."
"Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up."
"The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country."
"I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system."
"Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that."
"It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize."
"I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge."
"I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people."
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