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Quotes by English Authors
"Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar."
"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."
"If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest."
"We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service."
"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."
"Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it."
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
"Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread."
"You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."
"And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can."
"The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages."
"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open."
"It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents."
"Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it."
"He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity."
"Philosophy is the product of wonder."
"I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by."
"Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit."
"The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs."
"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."
"The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made."
"When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good."
"Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot."
"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."
"It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life."
"This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency."
"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
"I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis."
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