Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackie Stewart

We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.

We have had government funding for new media since the early '80s.

Mitchell Reiss

We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.

David Taylor

We have always been strongly opposed to anything that would threaten the separate identities of the British football associations and that has not and will not change. The present set-up has been around, in our case, since 1873 and we have separate privileges within FIFA and UEFA. From a football perspective, that is more important than participation in an Olympic Games.

We have already had a sequence of downgrades from British Airways, Lufthansa has reduced its guidance once, and KLM has massively reduced its guidance,

We have two British Airways jets parked on our runway.

We can survive this, British Airways is a strong company, and will come through this in good shape, but we have to take the necessary tough measures.

Rory Stewart

In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.

Orlando Bloom

I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

Patrick Troughton

It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.

Patrick Troughton

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.

Richard Steele

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

Richard Steele

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

Mary Leakey

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

Mary Leakey

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

Mary Leakey

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

We're working very closely with Iraqi officials in Basra and with the British government to determine who might be responsible for this heinous crime.

Siouxsie Sioux

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?

If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?

Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

Paul Scofield

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

Paul Scofield

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Paul Scofield

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

Penelope Keith

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

Paul Scott

We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

Paul Nurse

My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career.

Patrick Macnee

And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.

Peter Jackson

I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things.