Quotes by English/England authors (page 23)

"I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat"

John Cleese, Actor

"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern"

Thomas Harrison

"I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"I never predict anything, and I never will"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"In this life he laughs longest who laughs last"

John Masefield, Poet

"I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"Genius must be born, and never can be taught"

John Dryden, Poet

"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem"

Thomas Harrison

"Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"You can't always let people do their own thing"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?"

John Masefield, Poet

"Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments"

Thomas Harrison

"No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective"

Tracey Emin, Artist

"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see"

John Masefield, Poet

"The luck will alter and the star will rise"

John Masefield, Poet

"Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it"

John Masefield, Poet

"I take responsibility for myself and what I do now"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"Boldness is a mask for fear, however great"

John Dryden, Poet

"Flowers are happy things"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"Honor is but an empty bubble"

John Dryden, Poet

"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language"

Paul Muldoon, Poet

"We simply have not kept in touch with poetry"

Paul Muldoon, Poet

"Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was"

Paul Muldoon, Poet

"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem"

John Galsworthy, Author

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else"

John Galsworthy, Author

"At the day of judgment we shall all meet again"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

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