Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Banville

I don't see how English as we use it in Europe can be revivified. It's like Latin must have been in about A.D. 300, tired and used up. All one can do is press very hard stylistically to make it glow.

Ann Macbeth

I am very much in favour of video because the quality of production of video is now so good. It is a different experience to sitting in a cinema.

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

John Aubrey

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

Evelyn Waugh

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

Paul Parker

By alpine I mean that the gear is viable for ski mountaineering and touring in mountains as rugged as the Alps, or Alaska, or Canada.

Melanie Brown

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

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.'

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.

Joanna Trollope

I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about 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.

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.

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.

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.

It was immersion in the sense that when we got out of the van (at the state park) no English was supposed to be spoken.

It's a wonderful feeling knowing that people are interested in what I'm doing.

Matthew Arnold

It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

It's very tough if you have no English or very limited English to get through that Web site.

David Boies

Is the term 'concerned' a term you are familiar with in the English language?

Abraham Cowley

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

Dinah Sheridan

They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!

Jonathan Coe

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

Jonny Greenwood

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

It's like the English bard tradition, it's something that a lot of people know so well.

Rafael Benitez

It's good for English football to have a team in the final.