Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Kim

His pronunciation was fantastic. I was going around, saying maybe he should be the one speaking Korean and I'll speak English and say, 'Dude,' a lot.

His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married.

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.

Matthew Prior

They talk most who have the least to say.

Matthew Prior

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Matthew Prior

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Matthew Prior

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

Matthew Arnold

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Kingsley Amis

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

Kingsley Amis

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

Kingsley Amis

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

Kingsley Amis

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Kingsley Amis

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Orlando Cepeda

He was our Jackie Robinson, ... He wanted to make sure you had a place to live, that you were getting food to eat. Some guys, they only learned enough English to order one thing. He wanted to make sure you had money. If you didn't have money for something, he would give it to you.

He speaks and understands English but is not great at it.

Graham Nelson

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

Graeme Le Saux

The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.

Graeme Le Saux

So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one.

Thomas Otway

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

Thomas Sydenham

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

Thomas Sydenham

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

Thomas Malory

King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast.

Thomas Malory

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

Syd Barrett

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

David Lee

There is a language barrier. My Korean workers do not speak Spanish or English. My Latino workers do not speak English or Korean.

J. K. Rowling

There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it.

We train in the mornings, and then I go home and rest or sleep, and usually I go for a meal with Abel of a night, as we're the two with no family here, so we tend to hang around together.

I am a part of all that I have seen.

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.