Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Gower

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team.

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.

David Warner

There wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical.

There will always be someone to take your place, but no one can every replace you.

Roger Daltrey

It was fun to sing somebody else's song.

John Wilmot

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

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.

Ronald Reagan

The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Lewis Carroll

Speak in French when you can't think of English for a thing-turn out your toes when you walk-and remember who you are!

David Gower

The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked.

John Surtees

The team did a superb pitstop. We had steadily improved.

Robert Fitzgerald

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.

Jenny Agutter

The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.

Anna Friel

I've never been to a live match but now having made this film I'm going to - I'm going to Real Madrid so it'll be done with a bang!

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

Wendy Cope

I used to think all poets were Byronic.

Jonathan Coe

So no, I'm pleased if it's been influential for many readers, but at the time I didn't even know that it was going to have any readers.

Paul Parker

Some will say that tele has lost its soul with the new gear. My feeling is that if people don't want to use the big stuff, they don't have to.

Alexander Pope

Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide the fault I see,That mercy I to others show,That mercy show to me.

It would be better for our association and the English game as a whole if we had an English manager,

Jeremy Bentham

The solar industry needs stable markets. With fair and good incentives we can have solar power competitive in ten year's time.

Monica Baldwin

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.

Mark Haddon

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

John Stevens

We have a fairly mixed group in our research group. Most of them are not native English speakers.

Anchee Min

I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'

Denis Norden

I've seen radio, variety, revue, pretty well all of it, and of all of them, I have the greatest regard for variety as family entertainment.

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

Nick Rhodes

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

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

Jimmy Greaves

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

We feel there is already widespread broadband available today.

Leopold Stokowski

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.

Francis Bacon

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.