Quotes
“I know people think I’m old-fashioned. And I only hope I’m wrong about the way in which television today is headed. But the answer lies with the public and what they will finally accept … they have the on-off switch.”
“Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has excitement and ingenuity in every frame: there is no way at all in which it could be improved by the techniques of the eighties.”
“Nostalgia is only a trendy word to describe something which people have at last learned to appreciate because it has been taken away from them.”
“Halliwell's Hundred and Halliwell's Harvest are dedicated to the proposition that art should not be despised because it is popular.”
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“Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It’s exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. “I ain’t what I ought to be. I ain’t what I’m going to be, but I’m not what I was.””
—Stella Chess (20th century)
“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)