Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jet Li

I have met Jackie Chan about 6 times up 'til now... and even though many people think we are natural enemies, I personally think he is a cool bloke and would honestly love to work with him in a film one time - that would a well brilliant movie!

Warren McDonnell

He's a big, lovely bloke with two gold front teeth.

John Mulvihill

He's a fantastic player and really good bloke and really important to our team and he's stood up and said 'fine, I'll do my job for the team off the bench.'.

Paul Terry

He has been a great servant for Leicestershire, Hampshire and England and he's been a really popular bloke in the dressing room. His humour will be missed.

Scott Prince

He (Hodgson) would have been my first choice as well. He led my choices. He's a great bloke and a good friend. I support him 100 percent.

Alan Moore

One of the reasons why I don't leave Northampton is that the people don't treat me like a celebrity. I've been here for years; I'm just that bloke with long hair.

Richard Griffiths

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night.

Tim Vine

I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah, I thought "he's trying to pull a fast one'.

Scott Johnson

Stephen would have been the last bloke we would have wanted to replace after just 20 minutes.

Nellie McKay

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

Ricky Gervais

I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

Boy George

The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.

Blake Lively

Dressing up is all about reflecting how I feel.

Elizabeth Hurley

I love glamorous women. Hugh adores glamour, as well. Im completely behind women dressing up and looking as good as they can.

Ne-Yo

When you're dressing on a budget, simplicity is key.

Tony Parker

I'm impressed with how the NBA, as a whole, is dressing so well. Guys are being very creative and having fun with it.

Johnny Griffin

Wardrobe is gone. Set dressing is gone. The sets have all been struck and torn down and hauled away. Nothing has been put into storage. Everything has been disposed of. And if the show comes back, they'll regroup for another year.

Zach Braff

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

Alan Pardew

It's almost like he has Dr. Who's Tardis because he always turns up on time. (on Teddy Sheringham)

Alan Rickman

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

Alan Jay Lerner

England still will be here without you.

Chris Barber

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

C. S. Forester

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

Chris Sullivan

Until a few years ago, it was never as popular over there as it was here. But by this point, it has been commercialized and is a pretty big celebration in Ireland and England.

William Shakespeare

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

William Shakespeare

England is safe, if true within itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Laura Halldorson

We're happy about tonight, OK? We'll talk about New Hampshire later.

Stephanie Cutter

Ridiculous, ... there is nothing like Iowa and New Hampshire to make somebody look better.

Mary Shea

New Hampshire out-played us for most of the first half,

David Reutimann

New Hampshire has never had a repeat winner in the truck series. I'd like to keep that streak alive.

Scott Morgan

New Hampshire has always done well in this ranking.

Kenneth Relihan

I think what you're going to find is that the standards in New Hampshire are permissive, not descriptive.

David Souter

The restoration comes not only from the landscape and air, though they play their significant part, but from the people. I feel a strong need to be in New Hampshire for as much of the summer as I can manage it.

Scott Reed

such established Clinton-haters as Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire have prominently co-authored legislation with Mrs. Clinton.

Bill Bradley

And if only John McCain hadn't taken all the play away from us with a New Hampshire landslide.

Deirdre O'Kane

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

John Millington Synge

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Bob Dylan

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

Adam Brody

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

Diana Wynne Jones

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

Michelle Gomez

I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

Andy Murray

Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.

Andrew Davies

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Bill Cosby

If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Todd Young

We're getting in their face. And I'm sure it's not very popular with management.

Bob Beatty

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Edna O'Brien

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

Dave Ramsey

Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

Abdu'l Baha

We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.

Billy Graham

... a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.

Granth Sahib

Your servant begs to serve those who are enjoined to Your service.

George Herbert

Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.

Ignatius of Loyola

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness

George Bernard Shaw

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

George Herbert

The slothful is the servant of the counters.