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Quotes by English Authors
"It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness."
"He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
"As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around."
"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."
"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour."
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
"I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop."
"There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's."
"I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously."
"If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical."
"I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible."
"Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done."
"There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it."
"Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets."
"He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things."
"I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars."
"No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers."
"I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over."
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
"I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority."
"There is a learning quality in all of our shows."
"It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves."
"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
"Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible."
"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."
"I am certain one ought to be allowed to undo what one has done so ignorantly ! I daresay it happens to lots of women; only they submit, and I kick.... When people of a later age look back upon the barbarous customs and superstitions of the times that we have the unhappiness to live in, what will they say!"
"Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects."
"I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing."
"If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it."
"Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think."
"What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost by not giving it."
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