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Quotes by English Authors
"It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare."
"I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives."
"There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones."
"The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that."
"The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods."
"To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself."
"I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent."
"As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine."
"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
"You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it."
"I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove."
"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."
"The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in."
"One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic."
"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
"It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play."
"I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation."
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
"There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions."
"Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic."
"Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming."
"Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains."
"Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still."
"I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull."
"I don't even own my own name on the internet - somebody else bought it."
"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."
"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."
"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
"Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'"
"It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet."
"Every tub must stand on its own bottom."
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create."
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