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Quotes by English Authors
"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."
"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening."
"To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air."
"I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy."
"With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end."
"I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate."
"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
"At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education."
"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me."
"I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me."
"Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century."
"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."
"Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self."
"Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature."
"Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear."
"Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill."
"Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way."
"The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue."
"The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen."
"A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them."
"If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up."
"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
"I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood."
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
"However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for."
"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership."
"You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy."
"But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he looked like a sheep I take back all is this morning. It is genuine."
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