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Quotes by English Authors
"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."
"Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love."
"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
"It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic."
"When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people."
"Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!"
"I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned."
"Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?"
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."
"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
"Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales."
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
"On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round."
"Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band."
"Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait."
"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."
"The only way I could relax was when I was with my children."
"The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay."
"To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of."
"Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door,And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score."
"A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself."
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."
"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."
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