Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saffron Burrows

Ultimately, I just approached her as a young woman who's pretty screwed up, and I started reading Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf.

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

Joanne Harris

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Margaret Cavendish

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

Alan Sugar

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

John Mortimer

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

Alexander Herzen

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

Mark Lawrenson

He can be as good as he wants to be; that's how good he can be.

Mark Lawrenson

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

Nick Faldo

I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

Lennox Lewis

I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.

Dinah Sheridan

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Edmund White

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

What's invaluable about Bernie is that he has gotten a number of us eggheads together and has translated what is scientific gobbledygook into English so that our neighbors and friends can understand it,

Joe Cocker

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first.

With my parents, it's always in Slovak. With my siblings, it's English unless there is something that needs to be said that shouldn't be said, then we'll throw in a different language.

Rachel Ward

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand.

It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.

Thomas Gray

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

Samuel Richardson

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

Samuel Richardson

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Samuel Richardson

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

Samuel Richardson

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

A. S. Byatt

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

Terry Venables

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

Tilda Swinton

Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.

Tilda Swinton

I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.

Tilda Swinton

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.