Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Burnett Tylor

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

Flea

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

Fanny Burney

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

Edward Young

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

Edward Young

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

Eden Phillpotts

We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

Eden Phillpotts

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

J. K. Rowling

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

Anna Lee

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.

Thomas Shadwell

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

John Milton

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Jeremy Bentham

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Jeremy Bentham

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

John Galsworthy

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

J. G. Ballard

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

Francis Quarles

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Francis Quarles

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

Carice van Houten

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.

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.

Gary Neville

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

Brian Aldiss

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Brian Aldiss

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Henry Fielding

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.