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Quotes by English Authors
"From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour."
"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."
"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."
"You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest."
"The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face."
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."
"I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me."
"I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing."
"Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives."
"The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development."
"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another."
"But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well."
"A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science."
"I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world."
"Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own."
"I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage."
"People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz."
"I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get."
"I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show."
"Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!"
"Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable."
"Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes."
"Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense."
"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
"And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music."
"To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity."
"I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz."
"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
"I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet."
"The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to."
"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts."
"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."
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