Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ada Cambridge

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

Jefferson Mays

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

Henry Williamson

Long ago, when moose roamed in the forest at the mountain of the Two Rivers, otters had followed eels migrating from ponds and swamps to the seas.

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

I was very pleased to work with Pleat, he knows English football, knows the players and it was interesting to work with him.

William Shakespeare

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Carolina Herrera

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.

Mark Haddon

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

I think by and large, 10-codes have seen better days, ... We use a lot of plain English in the sheriff's office.

Scott Turow

I was headed for a life as an English professor but that just wasn't me.

Emily Watson

I think Silence of the Lambs was a great film and when somebody does that kind of suspense thing, with that much restraint, it's impressive.

Rabih Alameddine

I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.

Our line did a lot of work this week. We ran the plays over and over again. (David) English had a really good game. Our linemen really stepped it up.

Rachel Ward

People in Hollywood, they're looking for pretty girls, and if you take it seriously enough and work hard enough, you get the Guernsey.

Martin Fleischmann

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

Joanna Lumley

I don't think we know what we're going to get, so the idea of looking for somebody can make it wrong. Make friends and get a life.

Marsha Thomason

I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.

Derek Bailey

I don't think it is any different from what it was, except that the method is now familiar so you can't set up some internal shock situation.

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.

Stephanie Beacham

To this day I will not be called Steph.

Victor Hugo

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

Thomas Carlyle

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Maya Angelou

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Frederick Sanger

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

Izaak Walton

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

A. P. Herbert

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

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.