Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Friel

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

Anna Friel

David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.

Anna Friel

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

Kailash Kher

I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.

Holly Johnson

I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

Henry Taylor

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Henry Taylor

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

Henry Taylor

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Penelope Lively

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.

Penelope Lively

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

Margaret Drabble

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

Ray Winstone

Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!

Ricky Gervais

Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.

Outside of the car, she's English and very proper, ... But inside the car, she's forceful. She doesn't sit and wait. She goes after it.

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.

Roy Harper

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

Graham Nelson

Remember that 'Curses', being free, is circulated much more widely than shareware games, so it gets more than its fair share of attention.

Dale Carnegie

Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language.

Henry Louis Gates

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

Playboy was a wonderful experience and a great opportunity for me.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Hilaire Belloc

I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'

David Coverdale

I remember when I was a teenager, the epitome of success for us was Top of the Pops in those days, because we really had no idea.

Rick Wakeman

People always said that I hated punk, and that really wasn't true. It was glossed over for many years that I was the guy who found the Tubes and signed them to A&M. English punk was a revolution.

John Gould

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.