Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Barry Eisler

I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

Alexander Pope

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Alexander Pope

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Alexander Pope

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

We'll come out. We'll compete. I'm sure English will come ready to play. I know it will be a competitive game.

Dinah Sheridan

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

Damon Albarn

Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.

Roy Harper

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

Graham Nelson

Remember that 'Curses', being free, is circulated much more widely than shareware games, so it gets more than its fair share of attention.

Dale Carnegie

Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language.

Henry Louis Gates

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

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.

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.

Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Susan Stewart

The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.

Melanie Chisholm

A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.

W. Somerset Maugham

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Charles Caleb Colton

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Elizabeth Taylor

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Douglas Adams

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Mark Akenside

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Lewis Carroll

But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.

Lewis Carroll

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

Lewis Carroll

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Mahatma Gandhi

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

Parminder Nagra

At times, I couldn't understand what I was doing. I just knew I needed to stick with it. It was instinct, and that's what I've always relied upon.

He speaks and understands English but is not great at it.