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Quotes by English Authors
"If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network."
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
"For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."
"He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part."
"I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences."
"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."
"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way."
"I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs."
"Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost."
"Pride the first peer and president of hell."
"Don't just count your years, make your years count."
"George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement."
"My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark."
"What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together."
"The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject."
"Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair."
"There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized."
"No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness."
"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
"So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game."
"During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home."
"One thing that success has taught me is censorship."
"We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters."
"If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV."
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
"What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?"
"Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level."
"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
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