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Quotes by English Authors
"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."
"Tell him everything, it is best. He will forgive you."
"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
"There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world."
"The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about."
"I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it."
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."
"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."
"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."
"The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery."
"Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication."
"Lady Constance's lips tightened, and a moment passed during which it seemed always a fifty-fifty chance that a handsome silver ink-pot would fly through the air in the direction of her brother's head."
"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."
"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."
"Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment."
"Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse."
"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
"The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy."
"We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look."
"You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head."
"My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London."
"My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art."
"If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately."
"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."
"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."
"It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves."
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
"In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire."
"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
"But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years."
"The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school."
"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when.""
"Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not."
"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."
"Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me."
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