Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daisy Donovan

All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.

Neil Gaiman

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Robert Cray

We played a lot in Eugene, we played in Portland, we'd stop in Corvallis, ... We were doing that run from Vancouver, British Columbia, down to San Francisco.

Terence Stamp

In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.

Tony Hancock

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

Tony Hancock

And erm, perhaps looking like this it was perhaps the only thing I could do.

I think we have made a British degree affordable.

Albert Finney

I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.

Dean Rusk

I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.

Alan Bates

I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.

P. J. O'Rourke

Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.

Brandon Thomas

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

Brandon Thomas

It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

Brandon Thomas

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.

Billy Bragg

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

Billy Bragg

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

Billy Bragg

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

David Soul

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

We advertised in the British Dental Journal, which is on the web (Internet). A German dentist has applied. We have offered him a post.

Ross Davenport

We're excited about Beijing, with Simon and the rest of the British guys. I think we can really do something there and shock a few people.

Gurinder Chadha

For British cinema to survive, you really need a British film culture, and it's got to start down there, with young kids watching films in the cinema - so they can be transported to a different world.

Sarah Sutton

Some of those cartoons look nothing like me.

Sarah Sutton

I enjoyed working with Peter, I was very pleased when I heard he was going to be the Doctor.

Sarah Sutton

I don't think I would have stayed for the second season if I hadn't been happy.

Sarah Sutton

I think I must have too much to eat, we were doing a scene where we were crawling, and I ripped my trousers. I was very embarrassed. I was sown in, stitched in, quickly!

Sarah Sutton

I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running.

Sarah Sutton

We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?

I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

Gavin Rossdale

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

George Cole

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

George Cole

I was paid to be cheeky and people clapped me for it.

It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years.

Georgie Fame

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.