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Quotes by English Authors
"Indeed the mind of IlAovatar concerning you is not known to the Valar, and he has not revealed all things that are to come. But this we hold to be true, that your home is not here, neither in the land of Aman nor anywhere within the Circles of the World. And the Doom of Men, that they should depart, was at first a gift of IlAovatar. It became a grief to them only because coming under the shadow of Morgoth it seemed to them that they were surrounded by a great darkness, of which they grew afraid; and some grew wilful and proud and would not yield, until life was reft from them."
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel."
"For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds."
"If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free."
"So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd rather do anything but attempt the next paragraph, or reread the last one for the tenth time."
"I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors."
"We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition."
"My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope."
"I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is."
"The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it."
"Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice."
"I'm a Rangers fan and I love the club but this will be a difficult game."
"Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming."
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
"Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted."
"The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal."
"I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!"
"Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible."
"So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one."
"We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit."
"Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing."
"If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them."
"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."
"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
"If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law."
"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays."
"In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'"
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