Famous Quotes & Sayings

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

An Englishman is a man who lives on and island in the North Sea governed by Scotsmen

Any increase is welcomed. Obviously, as a former English teacher, I wish that the verbal had increased some, but it looks like it remained flat.

Roy Harper

As a revolutionary and leader of people at the barricades, I failed. But as a person who inwardly revolts all the time, I'm a raging success.

David Gower

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

Joss Stone

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

Mick Taylor

The one thing perhaps I do regret is not making more albums. I have written a lot of music that should be recorded... that will be recorded.

John Terry

After I finish playing, maybe I will sit down and watch it properly, but I don't think I will be able to until I retire or until I win it.

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.

Jean Rhys

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Really, and this can be said now, Kenneth Gluck was threatened with the sad fate of the beheaded English hostages,

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.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

They understand English but we didn't understand a word they were saying.

All of my friends know that English is NOT my forte! This is exactly the kind of help I needed to round out service to my clients.

A lot of people had not seen the shows because they were not English speaking but were TV watchers, and were enthralled with them and wanted more.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

Jonathan Coe

Also I had financial worries because it took four years to write and we were living off my wife's income all that time, which wasn't very great.

Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees / (If our loves remain) / In an English lane, / By a cornfield-side a-flutter with poppies.

Robin Gibb

You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.

This is a reprieve for English language learners. The question now is whether we can get a productive solution to the problem. This is exactly what we need to happen, have the threat of these fines hanging over the Legislature's head so we can come up with a reasonable solution.

This is England's greatest son,/ He that gained a hundred fights,/ Nor ever lost an English gun.