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Quotes by English Authors
"The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language."
"I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself."
"My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics."
"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."
"If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage."
"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise."
"What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?"
"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
"He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people."
"Civilization in its present form hasn't got long."
"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf."
"Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less."
"That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end."
"Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend."
"These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms."
"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."
"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large."
"If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents."
"I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely."
"It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece."
"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."
"Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows."
"We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming."
"I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity."
"I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh."
"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
"I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving."
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
"Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates."
"It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing."
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