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Quotes by English Authors
"She ignored my observation. This generally happens with me. Show me a woman, I sometimes say, and I will show you someone who is going to ignore my observations."
"The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence."
"I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild."
"Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?"
"You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people."
"I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players."
"It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world."
"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."
"When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before."
"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."
"Standing before costly objects of technological beauty, we may be tempted to reject the possibility of awe, for fear that we could grow stupid through admiration. We may feel at risk of becoming overimpressed by architecture and engineering, of being dumbstruck by the Bombardier trains that progress driverlessly between satellites or by the General Electric GE90 engines that hang lightly off the composite wings of a Boeing 777 bound for Seoul. And yet to refuse to be awed at all might in the end be merely another kind of foolishness."
"How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital."
"Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it."
"More than 15 percent of the jobs in Ohio are tied in some way to agriculture. A strong agriculture means a strong economy."
"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."
"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other."
"Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh."
"Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication."
"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
"Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."
"Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity."
"It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have."
"The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple."
"Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after."
"He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break."
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."
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