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Quotes by English Authors
"Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government."
"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
"At the top of the slope on the perimeter of the site, overlooking six lanes of motorway, is a diner frequented by lorry drivers who have either just unloaded or or are waiting to pick up their cargo. Anyone nursing a disappointment with domestic life would find relief in this tiled, brightly lit cafeteria with its smells of fries and petrol, for it has the reassuring feel of a place where everyone is just passing through--and which therefore has none of the close-knit or convivial atmosphere which could cast a humiliating light on one's own alienation. It suggests itself as an ideal location for Christmas lunch for those let down by their families."
"The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations."
"But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day."
"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."
"I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back."
"At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people."
"Bravery is the dead man's virtue."
"An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason."
"God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another."
"I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know."
"Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever."
"Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth."
"But first whom shall we sendIn search of this new world, whom shall we findSufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feetThe dark unbottomed infinite abyssAnd through the palpable obscure find outHis uncouth way, or spread his aery flightUpborne with indefatigable wingsOver the vast abrupt, ere he arriveThe happy isle?"
"They appear somewhat unreliable,' he murmured.'Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there's not a man of them I wouldn't trust my mother to.'Are you sure?'She's been dead these twenty years. What harm could they do her now?"
"In most gardens they make the beds too soft " so that the flowers are always asleep."
"History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."
"A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance."
"Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time."
"Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death,Call'd him soft names in many a musA d rhyme,To take into the air my quiet breath."
"It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie."
"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization."
"I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers."
"And although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work."
"Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out."
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