Famous Quotes & Sayings

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Lee Ryan

We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead!

Rory Bremner

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

Robert Walpole

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

Robert Walpole

I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.

Robert Walpole

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

Colin Greenwood

On the last two records, Thom was definitely looking for other instruments to give him voices rather than have his own voice at the front.

On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low.

Colin Greenwood

One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

Jeff Beck

I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.

I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.

David Blunkett

I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.

I am so pleased to have such a key British cultural player to work with our team,

Mark Billingham

Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.

Jim Dale

But it was a fascinating journey, because there I was creating voices and speaking words and I didn't know where the story was going.

But technology is a tool, not a virtue.

Michael Ball

Bunthorne's a high baritone, which is what I am. And I already come with the British accent, so that won't be a problem. You know, the designers came over and showed me the costumes. And they're wonderful--outrageous, campy, over-the-top. So maybe that's the new market I'm going to be cornering: campy, over-the-top characters who have a nasty side. Hmmm. What are they trying to tell me?

Simon Pegg

Because once the word got out that we were making Shaun of the Dead, we didn't want people to think we were backtracking or changing our minds.

Claire Forlani

I'm at a very different age. I'm no longer building my career as Sarah Jessica is. I've got it. And they can't take it away from me.

Greg Rusedski

Murray will be the top British player for many years,

David Prowse

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

Najib Razak

More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.

John Deacon

No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.