Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felicity Kendal

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

Walter Bagehot

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

William Empson

You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.

Wilkie Collins

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

Wilfrid Sheed

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Will Champion

The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.

Will Champion

Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.

Manfred von Richthofen

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.

Angela Carter

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

Angela Carter

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Angela Carter

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

Andrew Wiles

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

Andrew Wiles

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

Andrew Wiles

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

Anita Brookner

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Anita Brookner

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

Bruce Dickinson

There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

Damon Albarn

As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

Anna Friel

We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.

Anna Friel

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

Anna Friel

David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.

Anna Friel

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

Kailash Kher

I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.

Chris Adrian

Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer - but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it's all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration.

Derek Bailey

For me, playing is about playing with other people.

Derek Bailey

In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

Bjork

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.

Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure

Holly Johnson

I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.