Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Rooney

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

For 6 days a week I aim to get in between 18-23 miles.

John Wilmot

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

Rumer Godden

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

Edward Sapir

It is well known that the tense systems of French, English and German teem with logical inconsistencies as they are actually used.

Robin Gibb

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

Lytton Strachey

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

P. J. O'Rourke

I read good. I was an English major.

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.

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.

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.

Emily Watson

I'm lucky I don't do the kind of work where the main thing is that you're the girl and you look gorgeous. I don't look like that. I'm a funny-looking.

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.

James Shirley

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

William Cowper

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.

Mike Butcher

You give them recommendations. You throw different angles at them where, hopefully, they can get something out of it.

Michael Tippett

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

Peter Asher

I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.