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Quotes by English Authors
"A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it."
"Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours."
"We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us."
"Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system."
"The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA."
"The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be."
"A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy."
"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
"The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing."
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."
"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it."
"I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction."
"I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?"
"Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race."
"The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry."
"It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house."
"A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
"They lie deadly that tell you have good faces."
"What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being."
"I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people."
"It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true."
"The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with."
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
"When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters."
"Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity."
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
"I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure."
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