Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Aldiss

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Brian Aldiss

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Henry Fielding

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Henry Fielding

One fool at least in every married couple.

Henry Fielding

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

Geezer Butler

We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!

Geezer Butler

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

Francesca Annis

I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

Frederick Marryat

It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

Benjamin Britten

These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.

Gary Lineker

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Emily Watson

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.

Emily Watson

I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.

Emily Watson

I always think I am going to do my best.

Emily Watson

When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

Flea

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

Fanny Burney

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

Edward Young

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

Edward Young

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

Eden Phillpotts

We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

Eden Phillpotts

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

J. K. Rowling

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

Anna Lee

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.

Anne Carson

I never had much education in English poetry as such,

Rafael Nadal

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

Anna Pavlova

The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder.

Kelly Osbourne

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.