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Quotes by English Authors
"It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself."
"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
"The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state."
"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."
"Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade."
"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."
"You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important."
"Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think."
"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."
"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
"It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot."
"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."
"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
"It was great as an actor to be given the story line I was given but I didn't expect Craig to stay so it was a lovely twist when I found out they'd decided to keep him."
"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
"If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart."
"Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence."
"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."
"I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get."
"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart."
"I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet."
"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
"To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be."
"But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky."
"I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked."
"We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world."
"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."
"The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it."
"It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know."
"Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all."
"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
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