Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Aphra Behn

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

John Ciardi

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

John Ruskin

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

John Ruskin

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

Brenda Blethyn

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

Brenda Blethyn

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

Brenda Blethyn

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

Anthony Trollope

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

Anthony Trollope

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

With the Genies, you've got this television obstacle where you're essentially going into the marketplace with a lot of movies that haven't done particularly well in English Canada. That's a challenge.

Paul Parker

Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.

Paul Parker

We have to be careful about creating more rules.

Paul Parker

There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.

Paul Parker

Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.

Paul Gascoigne

Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to.

Paul Gascoigne

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

Paul Gascoigne

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

Paul Gascoigne

I never predict anything, and I never will.

Philipp Meyer

I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone else was a maths or economics major; most everyone else had relatives or family in banking.

Minnie Driver

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.

Phil Collen

Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It's a lot of fun.

Phil Collen

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

Peter Hermann

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

Steve Fossett

Today's forecast shows good winds until Thursday -- but then there are possible headwinds to slow us up when we reach the English Channel,

When I first got here I worked three jobs. I would sleep only three hours on some days. If I wasn't sleeping, I was taking English lessons.

Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!