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Quotes by English Authors
"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter."
"I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along."
"I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in."
"He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face."
"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed."
"I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else."
"It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different."
"Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.'I don't much care where-' said Alice.'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.'-so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough."
"You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong."
"The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists."
"I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all."
"Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards."
"It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience."
"An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity."
"I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing."
"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
"Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish."
"If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist."
"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."
"Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
"The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories."
"It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye."
"Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope."
"During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair."
"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."
"You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different."
"I never found accents difficult, after learning languages."
"There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire."
"He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter."
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