Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Redgrave

And I really also wanted to have the full-body scans to learn if it was anywhere else - and it wasn't - before I told them. So I didn't tell them, until for a week, and then I told them.

Lynn Redgrave

And I also am very nervous about implants. You know, I'm just nervous about all that. So I could still do it. I could think about it. But I needed to adapt to myself.

James Wolfe

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

Keith Emerson

What we're doing is a retrospective, a refined look at how far we've come in what's known as progressive music and investigate and explore that.

Tony Blair

What we're about here is trying to make sure that public opinion everywhere is satisfied entirely as to the quality and safety of British beef,

Mick Fleetwood

There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know.

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.

Jim Capaldi

Next to the drawing - I'm not really even trying to write a song - I had written a letter and this character who had become Mr. Fantasy.

Jack Straw

Obviously, it is a matter of grave concern that a British citizen has been killed,

Alan Bates

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.

Simon Jenkins

Given that her mother lived to 101, the Queen is clearly in for the long haul. Therefore the Prince of Wales must simply wait. We can only wish his mother all health and happiness and get used to the fact that British heads of state will, in future, be very senior citizens.

David Warner

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

Paul Nurse

I enjoyed my time at primary school because my teachers made the world seem such an interesting place and encouraged my innate curiosity.

Jane Asher

I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.

Antonia Fraser

I enjoyed writing mysteries out of my imagination as a relief from all that research, and also because I could write them while traveling.

John Deacon

I have a few personal ambitions for the band.

I have met him (the British hostage) and told him not to worry as he will be released.

Tony Blair

I have listened and I have learned, ... And I think I have a very clear idea of what the British people now expect from this government for a third term.

Honor Blackman

I have a Calvin Klein travel handbag with four compartments that fold up. You can keep your tickets, passport and documents all together.

Keith Emerson

I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.

Charles Kennedy

I happen to consider myself a Highlander even before a Scot; I am proud to be British yet feel comfortable as a European citizen.

Gurinder Chadha

If I'm in a gathering of filmmakers, I'm first and foremost a British Indian; if I'm in a gathering of British Indians, I'm a woman director. There are so many sides to who I am that I change all the time.