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Quotes by English Authors
"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one."
"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite."
"I get really saucy after a few drinks. Sexy rude, not obnoxious rude."
"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."
"Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God."
"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."
"The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it."
"I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me."
"I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation."
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
"I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape."
"It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about."
"The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn."
"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."
"It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have."
"A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's."
"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."
"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
"The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting."
"I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out."
"My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark."
"To be sure, this is what generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way."
"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."
"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."
"Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it?"
"But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own."
"I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it."
"I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem."
"I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life."
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