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Quotes by English Authors
"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."
"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving."
"So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."
"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."
"I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months."
"But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education."
"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."
"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
"Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition."
"The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all."
"Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable."
"From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer."
"I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me."
"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different."
"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances."
"I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent."
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."
"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
"This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal."
"To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her."
"The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in."
"Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V."
"I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium."
"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."
"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."
"My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain."
"For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving."
"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
"The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's."
"I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that."
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