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Quotes by English Authors
"For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand."
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."
"The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient."
"I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose."
"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.'"
"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."
"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
"I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go ."
"My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it."
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
"Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend."
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
"He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity."
"The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake of their whole lives. They have both locked themselves up in two boxes, painted inside with the sun and stars; they are both unable to get out, the one into the health and happiness of heaven, the other even into the health and happiness of the earth."
"People want security in this insecure world."
"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
"I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now."
"Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between."
"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two."
"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."
"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find."
"A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with."
"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."
"Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs."
"What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here."
"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
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