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Quotes by English Authors
"Roads go ever ever onUnder cloud and under starYet feet that wandering have goneTurn at last to home afar.Eyes that fire and sword have seenAnd horror in the halls of stoneLook at last on meadows greenAnd trees and hills they long have known."
"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."
"I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this."
"The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable."
"A man dies as often as he loses his friends."
"You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages."
"No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs."
"When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star."
"One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner."
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
"I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well."
"For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue."
"Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit."
"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping."
"Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices."
"Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are."
"I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance."
"I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all."
"Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they."
"All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation."
"I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman."
"The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising."
"Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater."
"I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig."
"We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s."
"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
"I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone."
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