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Quotes by English Authors
"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."
"I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent."
"There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off."
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
"If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network."
"The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself."
"Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading."
"Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers."
"The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature."
"All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost."
"For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."
"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
"John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept."
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
"Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things."
"Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man."
"The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread."
"A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally."
"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."
"Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind."
"By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important."
"I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing."
"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."
"They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none."
"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."
"It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!"
"I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups."
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