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Quotes by English Authors
"What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit."
"Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play."
"Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment."
"O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place."
"But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. The choice is yours: to go or wait.''And it is also said,' answered Frodo: 'Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.''Is it indeed?' laughed Gildor. 'Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill."
"Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation."
"Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera."
"If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it."
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."
"I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size."
"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."
"My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it."
"Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn."
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."
"I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house."
"I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly."
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."
"I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche."
"I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look."
"And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw."
"Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot."
"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."
"To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another."
"The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts."
"If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible."
"No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!"
"The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile."
"Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity."
"Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels."
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
"Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great."
"Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people."
"Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure."
"Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is afterwards recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene, which seems ordained to be her special medium of manifestation throughout all the pages of his memory."
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