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Quotes by English Authors
"When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her."
"Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see."
"The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development."
"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."
"All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation."
"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking."
"Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls."
"A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away."
"I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch."
"The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject."
"Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary."
"There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague."
"Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway."
"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
"My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that."
"I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school."
"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
"Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense."
"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."
"Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame."
"Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all."
"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
"I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls."
"There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch."
"One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil."
"Note, that yeast of good Beer, is better then that of Ale."
"In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature."
"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."
"Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project."
"Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second."
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