Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Cavendish

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Julian Lennon

He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I don't know if there is one.

Julian Lennon

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

Kate Winslet

One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.

Gerald Brenan

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

Gerald Brenan

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Geoffrey Chaucer

He was as fresh as is the month of May.

Leigh Hunt

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Ernest Dowson

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

Ezra Stiles

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Libba Bray

My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.

Kim Cattrall

Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.

Kevin Ayers

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.

Rachel Ward

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand.

It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.

Thomas Gray

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

Samuel Richardson

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

Samuel Richardson

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Samuel Richardson

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

Samuel Richardson

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

A. S. Byatt

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

Terry Venables

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.