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Quotes by English Authors
"The downtrodden are the great creators of slang."
"We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge."
"Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit."
"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."
"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."
"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
"After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it."
"I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics."
"I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me."
"In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me."
"We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother."
"Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun."
"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard."
"I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity."
"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar."
"Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same."
"If there were a sympathy in choice,War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,Making it momentary as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied nightThat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'The jaws of darkness do devour it up;So quick bright things come to confusion."
"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."
"Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered."
"I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony."
"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."
"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."
"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
"Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things."
"In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind."
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."
"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."
"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem."
"I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head."
"From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
"If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it."
"Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it."
"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago."
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