Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Wayne Rooney

It's good to have him back in English football - and it will help him as well.

P. J. O'Rourke

I read good. I was an English major.

I probably wouldn't have a big problem, but the Mexicans come here with their language you don't understand. I don't have no problem with foreign people come in, at least (if) they talk right ... They should speak English or get out.

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?

Paul Parker

Come winter, I'm up at 5am every morning just because it's out there. Waiting for it to get light. There is so much to do on skis.

He bullied, soothed and cajoled. In fact, he's awfully good at what he does, but how one wishes he didn't work quite so hard doing it.

William Ames

Hearing here, therefore, means any receiving of the word of God whether it be communicated to us by preaching, reading, or any other way.

John Surtees

If he can't do it with Ferrari, well, he can't do it.

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

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.

The first place we went was Vienna, and the first player we tried out was Toni Fritsch. He had a hard time speaking English at first, but he did master it.

The English website will post the latest research findings and more than 300 pictures and video about the massacre.

Quentin Crisp

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity

Jamaica Kincaid

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

D. H. Lawrence

The English kill off all their poets by the time they're forty

John Banville

The English did many terrible things but one great thing you did was give us this extraordinary language ... and it works for us.

Henry Bessemer

The ground for the factory having been chosen, and a long lease of the premises obtained, I had next to plan the necessary buildings.

The greatest men, you can quote for everything.

Thomas Hardy

You was a good man, and did good things.

William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.

Fred Frith

All the time signatures we used on Gravity were taken from folk music cultures, where those kinds of time signatures are quite normal.

Melanie Chisholm

A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.

W. Somerset Maugham

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Charles Caleb Colton

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Elizabeth Taylor

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Douglas Adams

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

James Shirley

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.