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Quotes by English Authors
"I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months."
"Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it."
"We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections."
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
"I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be."
"The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide."
"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
"But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me."
"Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think."
"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."
"The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold."
"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."
"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."
"We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan."
"First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it."
"Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want."
"We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!"
"Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer."
"After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me."
"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
"Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it."
"Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V."
"Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature."
"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage"."
"My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain."
"The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling."
"If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign."
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