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Quotes by English Authors
"I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground."
"I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously."
"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."
"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"
"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human."
"For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially."
"We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny."
"I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful."
"Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!--I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is--chilly for a man without clothes."
"There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere."
"I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time."
"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other."
"This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read."
"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all."
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."
"We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution makes it even clearer. But it doesn't. It is by no means clear that it means anything at all. Or if it means anything, it means so many different things to be misleading, even pernicious."
"For our radically misnamed "materialistic civilization must above all cultivate the love of material, of earth, air, and water, of mountains and forests, of excellent food and imaginative housing and clothing, and of cherishing our artfully erotic contacts between human bodies. Certainly, all these so"called "things are as impermanent as ripples in water, but what life, what love, what energy is there in a perfectly pure abstraction or a totally solid and eternally indestructible rock?"
"He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined."
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
"Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suicide bombs. We are very gentle people. All we do is use words to talk about things like the cosmos, the origin of the universe, evolution, the origin of life. What's there to be frightened of? It's just an opinion."
"The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved."
"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."
"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."
"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."
"The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days."
"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."
"Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs."
"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."
"Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren't treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you're on the right side?"
"However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it."
"There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine."
"The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room."
"As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know."
"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"
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