Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mireille Guiliano

In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Dodie Smith

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Dodie Smith

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Thomas Hardy

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

Thalia

When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more English than Spanish, and it's important that we don't lose our identity, our language.

So let's say you're using XYZ product and you want to do something very sophisticated. You subscribe to this thing, you hit a button, and a CA expert pops up in video.

So it's really for us about new products, because we have released a lot of new products.

I'm very comfortable in having a strong team. I'm very comfortable in sharing the limelight with the team.

I think by and large, 10-codes have seen better days, ... We use a lot of plain English in the sheriff's office.

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.