Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dawn French

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

Dawn French

Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.

Dusty Springfield

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

Dusty Springfield

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

Dusty Springfield

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

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.

Virginia Woolf

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Martin Parr

When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.

Vincent Frank

I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth.

Vincent Frank

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

Vincent Frank

I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents.

Vincent Frank

I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.

Lillie Langtry

I'm not afraid. I never liked long last acts.

John Walters

You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.

John Walters

Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.

John Walters

To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.

John Walters

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.

John Walters

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

John Walters

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

John Walters

All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.

John Walters

Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning.

John Walters

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

John Walters

Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more.

John Bonham

If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about.