Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Wilkinson

I have talent. I know it. I've been doing this for 30 years. But at the same time, you not only have to be good; you have to be good in hits.

Terence Stamp

I have to know what would've happened if I tried to get into show business. The last thing I was expecting was to have the kind of career I've had.

Wilfrid Laurier

I prefer the Yankee dollar to the British shilling, especially when the Yankee dollar is near at hand and the British shilling so far away.

Jeff Beck

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

If you think about it, I made history. Not only was I the first black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar, I was the first black British person.

John Berry

If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job.

Johnny Vegas

I get all kinds of ages, it really does range from silly drunk old men to silly drunk young lads. And the same goes for the females.

Jonny Miller

I never try to completely do a character, if you know what I mean. I always feel like I'm just being me, but in the character's situation.

Keith Emerson

I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it.

David Ricardo

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.

David Warner

If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.

Susan George

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

Hopefully we will have a meeting with the British associations and this item will be top of the agenda,

Albert Finney

I don't really look back at all. When I've made a film, I've made it. They kind of go out into the world and they're on their own really.

Fred Couples

I don't play great golf a lot. I do it every now and then like in the British Open last year when I finished third so I know I can do it ... It's just a matter of going out there and doing it again.

Albert Finney

I don't plan on digging that stuff up that I've kept down with my feet. Why would I want to dig it all up and examine it like an archaeologist?

Elvis Costello

I followed The Byrds a lot, and then when they did a country styled record it made me curious to know who these people were that they liked.

Winston Churchill

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire

Susan George

I have never subscribed to authoritarianism, and I think if the 21st century is going to be authoritarian then we're all done for.

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

I had three weeks off after the British Open in July, and that's when I realised I wouldn't be able to get in my 11 events in Europe.

Damon Hill

I nearly won the British Grand Prix in 1993, but missed out when the engine gave up on me. That moment was one of sheer disappointment.

Sarah Sutton

In Amsterdam, we went for a wonderful Indonesian meal one night, and then went out for a stroll around the red light district, which was good fun.

John Deacon

I must say American radio is good in a way because for new groups, especially like English groups that's how the interest picked up on us over here.

Mitchell Reiss

I'm not sure you can do anything quickly or easily with the North.

Paul Revere

In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories.

David Ricardo

In the course of these observations, I have often had occasion to insist, that rent never falls without the profits of stock rising.

David Knopfler

In the early days I really enjoyed the freedoms it offered because I was happy to work the long hours as long as I was working from home a lot.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything.

In the Kosovars' hour of darkness and fear, British forces have helped a whole people back from the precipice,

John le Carre

In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them.