Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Massenet

Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

Michael Ashcroft

When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy.

James McAvoy

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

Michael Douglas

She is such a tremendous spokesperson for Britain in general, and Wales in particular, that it hurt to see how she was treated in this whole process.

Ed Miliband

We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

David Bowie

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

William Hague

The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.

Nigel Hamilton

As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in fact, had met most of the post-war prime ministers of Great Britain from Douglas-Home to Tony Blair.

Nigel Hamilton

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Winfried Vahland

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

Hank Johnson

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

Mike Edwards

We do functions for all sorts of student organizations because of the slide and sunning patio.

Venancio Figueroa

What do you mean, the system functions as designed?

Tom Davies

If these functions are transferred to another agency...are we saving money or just transferring costs?

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

Alfred Hitchcock

Paramount functions practically as a studio setup for him.

Lil Mama

One of the things that makes me most happy about music is that I can look at a picture and see Da Brat, Missy, Lil Kim, Left Eye, and I know Aaliyah is a singer, but to see them all in one photo together hugging and laughing and really having genuine love for each other... I want to feel that with my hip hop sisters.

Ephraim Sneh

What has to worry us is whether it will be a genuine deployment or a make-believe deployment, and at present the impression is that it will be a make-believe deployment,

Robbie Tobeck

We're genuinely grateful for our fans. That's why we went out to say thanks, too. I'm really thankful being part of this team, especially knowing how this town loves the Seahawks.

John Peel

Yes, I always feel that the music I like, and I genuinely like, the stuff I play on the radio is my own way of going out on the street and righting these wrongs that I think should be righted.

Lisa Murray

When they were off of the court, they had true genuine friendships. They spent a lot of time together off of the court. I think a lot of the time it doesn't happen. We always thought that that was kind of a neat thing.

Lynn Coady

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.

Maripol

Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

Tim Tebow

I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I'm a Christian, and I'm not perfect. I screw up every day, but I think that's what grace is all about.'

Boris Pasternak

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Raymond Hack

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

David Tudor

I persist in performing.

David Hockney

I've realized that I can do performances.

Brian Tracy

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Tift Merritt

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.

Al Goldman

What has been going on is a very sharp reaction to a slowing economy.

Brandon Marshall

I wouldn’t change any of my reactions

Ted Sarandos

'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

Henrik Gullberg

The reaction is not surprising. The expectations were skewed to the upside.

Larry Ellison

My first reaction is not if I live to a thousand years. But who knows?

Don Carty

My first reaction is it could have been a lot worse than it was.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, my reaction to that is it's sad.

Colin Lee

Jody is very, very disappointed with his reaction

Kate Warne

I think in Toronto we're seeing reaction to the Lucent pre-announcement with Nortel, which is down,

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Noah Cowan

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

James O'Shea

We can communicate to our readers what this is about without running it.

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Anthony Daniels

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.