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Quotes by English Authors
"I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off."
"With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it."
"You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound."
"In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us."
"Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive."
"By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large."
"It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man."
"I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof."
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."
"A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it."
"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety."
"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!"
"The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute."
"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
"Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money."
"One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time."
"Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain."
"There was something called Christianity."
"For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages."
"It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place."
"I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity."
"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
"With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart."
"A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time but they will be remembered and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion."
"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
"I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
"What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again."
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