Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

Alan Pardew

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

Alan Pardew

Shut your noise, you old c***!

Alan Page

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

Alan Page

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Alan Hansen

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Alan Hansen

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

Alan Green

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

Alan Green

Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing

David Shields

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

Adam Hamilton

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

Alice Munro

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Alexa Chung

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

Aron Ralston

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

Mahatma Gandhi

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Jerry Lawler

But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.

Fay Weldon

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

Gary Kemp

I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.

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.