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Quotes by English Authors
"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
"Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous."
"A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation."
"The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal."
"The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable."
"I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request."
"There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
"Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions."
"Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine."
"I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania."
"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
"As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear."
"I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in."
"I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen."
"I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!"
"As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great."
"Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney."
"Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit."
"As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD."
"And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others."
"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."
"Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should."
"I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change."
"They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black."
"Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless."
"My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town."
"I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had."
"And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience."
"You totally ruined my life, you know that?' said Rincewind hotly. 'I could have really made it as a wizard if you hadn't decided to use me as a sort of portable spellbook. I can't remember any other spells, they're all too frightened to stay in the same head as you!"
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