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Quotes by English Authors
"Pornography is a satire on human pretensions."
"I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age."
"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."
"In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet."
"Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer."
"Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires."
"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving."
"He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views."
"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
"You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us."
"This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it."
"If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal."
"So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts."
"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
"I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when."
"Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned."
"Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film."
"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
"We're more into sort of fluid structures that are simultaneously the most efficient, the most beautiful, and the most engineered. You know what I mean? We like the balance you can get in there."
"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history."
"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it."
"But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment."
"Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase."
"I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them."
"When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record."
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