Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Melanie Chisholm

I wouldn't say I worked with these people because I was looking for a particular vocal sound. I worked with them because I loved what they had done before-and because they really wanted to work with me.

Andrew Wiles

I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep.

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.

John Krasinski

I taught English in Costa Rica before I went to college. I'm not an especially outdoorsy guy, but sometimes I would spot wildlife while whitewater rafting or walking in the rainforest at 5 A.M.

Graham Nelson

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

Graeme Le Saux

The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.

Graeme Le Saux

So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one.

Thomas Otway

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

Thomas Sydenham

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

Thomas Sydenham

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

Thomas Malory

King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast.

Thomas Malory

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

Muriel Spark

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Ozzy Osbourne

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Donna Shalala

Having plain English information, with uniform labels, is very important for over-the-counter drugs,

Andrew Wiles

Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand and I knew from that moment that I would never let it go. I had to solve it.

Going by the test results it's showing that it's not doing the job. We knew math was lacking so we addressed that. We'd like to see to English now.

Joss Stone

For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.

Daniel Kim

His pronunciation was fantastic. I was going around, saying maybe he should be the one speaking Korean and I'll speak English and say, 'Dude,' a lot.

George Porter

It is a joyous occasion for a scientist when the subject which interests him most is recognised by the highest honour that the world can bestow.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.

Joe Cocker

I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.

Marty Schottenheimer

I was an English major. And I have run out of superlatives.

Syd Barrett

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

David Lee

There is a language barrier. My Korean workers do not speak Spanish or English. My Latino workers do not speak English or Korean.

J. K. Rowling

There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it.

We train in the mornings, and then I go home and rest or sleep, and usually I go for a meal with Abel of a night, as we're the two with no family here, so we tend to hang around together.

Samuel Foote

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

George Porter

We three chemists here are the most fortunate of Nobel Laureates, many of whom are rewarded after years of patient and painstaking work.

Dan Hawkins

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married.

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.