Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Dolby

If you think back to the '70's, there were these new tools, with very few people using them in pop music. There's a real parallel with that now.

Thomas Dolby

If you're Take That for example, you don't need to be seen in the studio. But they have their own fans, and their fans would like a way to get closer.

Nicholas Culpeper

If you will sweeten your Decoction with Sugar, or any Syrup fit for the occasion you take it for which is better, you may and no harm done.

Martin Lewis Perl

In my high school, two foreign languages had to be studied, four years of English was required, and that meant mostly grammar and composition.

Emily Watson

I had done theater at school and really enjoyed it. I got a whiff of that sense of excitement that goes with it when I did school plays.

Ritchie Blackmore

I had given up on the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.

Melanie Brown

Hopefully, next year if we can get everything sorted out and together.

Jonathan Coe

I don't know, I don't really have a view about what my contemporaries are doing, except that I enjoy individual writers and so on.

He's still not interviewing other people; he's still interviewing himself.

Simon Raven

How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.

Colin Cooper

He's one of those managers you'd give your left leg to play for.

Jane Horrocks

I don't really like using my own voice.

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.

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

Fred Frith

It struck me as not very interesting just to take what was exactly in the film and stick it on a C.D. and put it out as a soundtrack.

Joanna Trollope

It's not so much hearth as family life which is where we all, I'm sure, learn (or fail to learn!) all our life skills for the future.

Walter Pater

For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, only an additional, and as it were incidental grace, upon this expressive landscape.

Ruth Rendell

Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language.

Tom Wolfe

In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public.

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

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.

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!

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.