Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Clough

At last they've got a manager who speaks better English than they do

Percy Bysshe Shelley

All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Mark Haddon

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

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 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.

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.

Celia Johnson

There may be a better one somewhere, but I haven't caught her at it.

This is very sad news. Peter Osgood made a wonderful contribution to English football.

This lecture took place 17 years ago. He is an English citizen. He doesn't live in Austria and he is 68 years old. He is not really dangerous, especially not to Austria.

Edie Campbell

There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.

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.

Jeremy Bentham

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

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!

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,

Joss Stone

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

Kim Wilde

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

John Betjeman

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.

Joe Cocker

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

Jenna Bush

I was an English major.

It's tough when you work with a kid six hours a day and the other 18 hours, no English is spoken at the home. What kind of progress can you make?

Malcolm Lowry

The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story you will get more out of if you don't skip.

Francis Bacon

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