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Quotes by English Authors
"I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose."
"We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm."
"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it."
"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."
"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
"I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor."
"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England."
"I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel."
"Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him."
"People want security in this insecure world."
"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
"A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with."
"An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version."
"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"
"There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within."
"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."
"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
"People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'"
"He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity."
"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
"But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't."
"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."
"This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people'"
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