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Quotes by English Authors
"There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers."
"I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?"
"I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles."
"In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone."
"I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off."
"A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement."
"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."
"Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived."
"The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything."
"When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean."
"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."
"Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine."
"I was born in very sorry circumstances."
"I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else."
"Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually."
"I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious."
"Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does."
"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."
"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor."
"Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities."
"There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it."
"Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new."
"A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils."
"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
"To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories. And humans loved stories, because once you'd turned things into stories, you could change the stories."
"If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising."
"I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek."
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
"I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder."
"There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized."
"Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties."
"I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly."
"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
"When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?"
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