Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lois Lowry

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Nigel Kneale

Certainly, it isn't a ghost story where people go into a haunted house. There have been two or three made on that basis, but I didn't want to do that.

Jon English

But thousands of people march to my songs, some just ignore me and shuffle along, some other tip me, hah, and sometimes they sing right along.

Gordon Taylor

But this is a worrying pattern for English football. Are our stars of the future getting the opportunities they need?

Agatha Christie

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

Peter Gabriel

I love 5.1. Sometimes you can't squeeze everything in comfortably into a stereo picture. There is a lot more space in a 5.1 environment.

Joseph Addison

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below.

Roger Daltrey

Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs.

Joseph Bruchac

My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.

Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals.

John Redmond

Never for one hour since then has the English government of Ireland rested upon anything except naked force and unabashed corruption.

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.

Todd Boyd

Frankly I love the word 'nigga.' It is my favorite word in the English language because no other word incites more controversy today.

Frederick Sanger

From 1944 to 1951 I held a Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research, and since 1951 I have been on the staff of the Medical Research Council.

Joanna Lumley

I don't think we know what we're going to get, so the idea of looking for somebody can make it wrong. Make friends and get a life.

Marsha Thomason

I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.

Derek Bailey

I don't think it is any different from what it was, except that the method is now familiar so you can't set up some internal shock situation.

Robert Bridges

I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

Mathias Rust

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes

Paul Gascoigne

I feel sorry for the fans because they are laying out a lot of money now and if the players don't perform, they are getting robbed of their money.

John Pople

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

Bob Paisley

If I was pinned down I'd say that was my greatest asset. I could speak to players and give them examples of injuries and how they heal.

Derek Bailey

I found that you couldn't use the same people anyway; there weren't that many people, so you'd be using the same ones over and over again.

Graham Nelson

I have been working on a more serious game, called 'Jigsaw', for about 18 months, but don't hold your breath. it'll be a while arriving.

Joss Stone

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

Mitch Hewer

I'd love to be able to do a really good English movie.

Teddy Sheringham

I'd look at any offer. If I didn't want it I wouldn't go for it, but if there was job satisfaction and I'd enjoy, then I would contemplate it.

Gavin Bryars

I did that as a personal journey when I was a philosophy student and working as a jazz musician, so I moved from philosphy to music.

Mary Shelley

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

I am a part of all that I have seen.

Gary Neville

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.