top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by English Authors
"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."
"Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason."
"If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you."
"You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me."
"Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product."
"She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one."
"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty."
"It's important we win and because of the players we have we should win some matches in style."
"Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out."
"I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends."
"To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field."
"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
"In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air."
"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."
"It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise."
"If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond."
"Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes."
"Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist."
"I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens."
"Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to."
"As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness."
"We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development."
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."
"One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives."
"I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more."
"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."
"Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art."
"Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone."
"Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them."
bottom of page