Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Atlas

I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man.

Alan Moore

When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.

Alfred Hitchcock

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Clive Barker

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

Frank Woolley

We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

Fred Hoyle

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Fred Frith

Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.

Fred Frith

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

Francis Thompson

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Barry Gibb

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Barry Gibb

Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

Barry Gibb

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

Barry Gibb

It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

Adrian Lyne

I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.

Adrian Lyne

I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.

Danny Boyle

It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.

Mike Figgis

I want the score to have a really big voice.

Richard Lester

Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

Boy George

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

Bryan Procter

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.

Bryan Procter

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

Ray Bradbury

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

Anthony Horowitz

There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.

Nick Rhodes

To be able to experiment with new forms of distribution and technology comes naturally to the group and we're excited about the reaction we'll get.

Kate Christensen

The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.

Augustine Birrell

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Robert Bridges

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.

Ann Macbeth

It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.