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Quotes by English Authors
"On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it."
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
"But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it."
"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."
"I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance."
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."
"As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on."
"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
"A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself."
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations."
"I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me."
"It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing."
"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
"Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems."
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
"I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude."
"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."
"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
"One man is as good as another until he has written a book."
"Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver."
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
"The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously."
"Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying."
"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
"I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really."
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