Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Gower

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

John Redmond

Never for one hour since then has the English government of Ireland rested upon anything except naked force and unabashed corruption.

W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Robin G. Collingwood

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb

Roy Ayers

Polydor used to release me at different times around the world. You get your royalty statement: sales here, here, but never over there!

James Horner

My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.

Glasser is a tough match up. He can be hard to handle. English is just steady in there.

Daniel Tammet

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.

Doug Larson

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur

Anna Pavlova

The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder.

Rafael Nadal

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

Anne Carson

I never had much education in English poetry as such,

Felicity Kendal

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

Walter Bagehot

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

William Empson

You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.

Wilkie Collins

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

Wilfrid Sheed

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Will Champion

The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.

Will Champion

Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.

Manfred von Richthofen

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.

Angela Carter

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

Angela Carter

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Angela Carter

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

Andrew Wiles

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

Andrew Wiles

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

Andrew Wiles

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

Anita Brookner

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Anita Brookner

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

Bruce Dickinson

There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

Damon Albarn

As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

Anna Friel

We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.