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Quotes by English Authors
"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
"Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America."
"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."
"So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top."
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action."
"I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted."
"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual."
"I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately."
"My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman."
"And so the Universe ended."
"Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that."
"Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!"
"Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around."
"It's bad enough barging into Guild property, but we'll get into really serious trouble if we shoot anyone. Lord Vetinari won't stop at sarcasm. He might use' - Colon swallowed - 'irony."
"There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years."
"I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that."
"Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies."
"No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves."
"He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson."
"I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that."
"As a rule from what I've observed the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again."
"He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!"
"Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with."
"Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?"
"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
"The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable."
"Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure."
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
"Have you taken leave of your senses."
"Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line."
"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."
"Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?"
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