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Quotes by English Authors
"I take all knowledge to be my province."
"If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses."
"I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid."
"And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment."
"Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation."
"You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it."
"Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality."
"There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened."
"Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time..."
"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."
"She sniffed, and smiled a bit, but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who doesn't understand you it's someone who understands perfectly, before you've had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood."
"Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations."
"You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur,' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies."
"Friar Laurence:O, mickle is the powerful grace that liesIn herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought to vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give; nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified."
"Doesn't this place give you the creeps? You could perhaps do something with some floral wallpaper and a fire-bomb."
"Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant."
"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves."
"I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous."
"The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance."
"All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time."
"It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle."
"A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image."
"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
"No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager."
"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
"I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it."
"An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else."
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
"I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes."
"My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do."
"Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something."
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