Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daley Thompson

If you're not in it you can't win it.

Jenny Agutter

I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.

Jacqueline du Pre

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

I'm disappointed for Steve. I know he wanted the job. I'm an Englishman and I'll reserve my judgement on that appointment.

William Hazlitt

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.

Maya Angelou

I know you very well, and I know you need a good English teacher.

I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.

Thomas Dolby

I'm actually more interested in the other half of the world, because I wouldn't like to be excluded from any of this technology.

Trevor Nunn

I love to have as much input as possible.

Miyavi

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

In her quiet way, Mary English mattered a lot.

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.

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.

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.

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.

David Gower

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

Roger Daltrey

It was fun to sing somebody else's song.

David Gower

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

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.'

I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years.

John Krasinski

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

Jamaica Kincaid

I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.

Cheech Marin

Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken by my relatives all my life, especially when they didn't want me to understand what they were talking about.

Miguel Garcia

Because my English is not very good, so I can't do it in English,

DeJuan Blair

Can, too. All right, people would be surprised to know I sing, rap ? and like English class. I like to write.

Thomas Dolby

But it really took this long for me to be able to take a breather from it and come back to music which was always my first love.

Lewis Carroll

'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'

Evelyn Waugh

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

William Hazlitt

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.

Pankaj Mishra

If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.