Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Payn

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

Jenny Agutter

But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.

Jamie Redknapp

But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.

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.

Stephen Wolfram

There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

Adelaide Anne Procter

We always may be what we might have been.

Edward Burnett Tylor

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

Henry Fielding

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value.

Ian Botham

Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

Frank Muir

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor.

The order that we signed- everything has to be in english and spanish, presented at exactly the same time.

Alfred Hitchcock

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

John Stevens

We have a fairly mixed group in our research group. Most of them are not native English speakers.

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

John Gay

She who has never loved has never lived.

John Gay

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

John Gay

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

John Gay

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

Joe Strummer

When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.

Dinah Sheridan

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

Mike Butcher

You can not be afraid when you get to this level to teach. I don't care what level you're at, if you don't teach, you're worthless.

Joanna Trollope

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

David Gower

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

Roger Penrose

Entire lights rays - you see if you made space, each of whose points represented an entire light ray, you'd find that space had five dimensions.

English is my language because of the history, and what I try to do - and I did that in 'Carpentaria' in particular - is to write in the way we tell stories and in the voice of our own people and our own way of speaking.

English is a language from the head and brain, Irish comes from the heart.

English fought right to the end like they've done all season.

John Wilmot

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.