Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.

As things stand, more people speak English than have ever spoken a single tongue, and those who speak it as a second language now outnumber native speakers.

Jamie Redknapp

As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.

Joseph C. Lincoln

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road.

Paul Gascoigne

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.

William Butler Yeats

Did that play of mine send outCertain men the English shot?

Jamie Cullum

'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.

Margaret Cavendish

And though my father was not a peer of the realm, yet there were few peers who had much greater estates or lived more noble therewith.

Parminder Nagra

But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

Parminder Nagra

I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

Paul Ince

I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.

Paul Ince

We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here.

We feel there is already widespread broadband available today.

William Cowper

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.

Mike Butcher

You give them recommendations. You throw different angles at them where, hopefully, they can get something out of it.

Michael Tippett

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

Peter Asher

I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.

Peter Asher

Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

Nick Rhodes

We tried to relocate, but it was so hard on short notice,

Jimmy Greaves

We signed to play until the day we died, and we did.

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

Geoffrey Chaucer

We little know the things for which we pray.

Antonya Nelson

I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Emily Watson

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.

Emily Watson

I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.

Emily Watson

I always think I am going to do my best.

Emily Watson

When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.