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Quotes by English Authors
"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."
"There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway."
"I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance."
"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."
"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."
"Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment."
"Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai."
"My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it."
"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."
"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."
"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
"The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that."
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
"Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse."
"The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband."
"Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet."
"But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince."
"Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus."
"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."
"There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher."
"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on."
"I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet."
"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."
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