Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Fielding

One fool at least in every married couple.

Henry Fielding

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

Geezer Butler

We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!

Geezer Butler

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

Francesca Annis

I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

Frederick Marryat

It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

Benjamin Britten

These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.

Gary Lineker

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.

Frank Woolley

We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

Fred Hoyle

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Fred Frith

Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.

Fred Frith

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

Francis Thompson

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Rose Tremain

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

Richard Barnfield

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.

Roger Daltrey

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.

David Pleat

We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

Jean Ingelow

Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

John Mortimer

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

Alexander Herzen

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

Mark Lawrenson

He can be as good as he wants to be; that's how good he can be.

Mark Lawrenson

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

Nick Faldo

I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.