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Quotes by English Authors
"They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom."
"When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there."
"Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader."
"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."
"God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man."
"They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be."
"The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too."
"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga."
"We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does."
"I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest."
"The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority."
"Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top."
"John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'."
"It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word."
"I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal."
"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."
"If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level."
"I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36."
"The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it."
"The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination."
"I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround."
"We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years."
"People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen."
"I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us."
"To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier."
"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."
"Don't just count your years, make your years count."
"If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty."
"This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness."
"Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid."
"This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously."
"I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever."
"An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual."
"Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights: some, so remote from this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their rays have been yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shadows of the night were broad and black."
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