Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodney Barker

The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Britain has always done.

Mark Haddon

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

David Miliband

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.

Richard O'Brien

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Walter Russell Mead

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Stephen Kinzer

In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.

Nick Harkaway

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

Kate Hudson

In the early 1980s when the British government decided to purchase the Trident nuclear weapons system, Britain faced a perceived threat from the nuclear-armed Soviet Union.

Aidan Turner

In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.

Joe Sims

I wouldn't be surprised to see Judge Jackson rule by the end of this week. He hasn't shown a lot of patience here recently.

Bob Hartwig

Jackson was not targeted for any other reason than the physical condition, the location of it and being able to put students in other schools.

Daniel H. Hill

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

Kenneth Edmonds

I mean, it's nice to know Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, but when you're sitting next to a movie star, that's a whole 'nother thing.

Joey Downs

You can't have a better year than Jackson had.

Robert Sanger

Was Michael Jackson ever on a single call?

Raymone Bain

I want to state for the record, unequivocally: Michael Jackson has not sold Neverland. He is not moving to Europe. That is a rumor.

Robin Clifford

Once Jackson is satisfied, he will make a statement,

Keith Stanfield

I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson - me, Mike Brown, all these people - we're all the same; we're not much different.

Nick Licata

Whatever Peter wants, I am with him. He understands the complexities and subtleties of planning.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

Jamie Bell

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

Alphonsus Liguori

Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.

Garry Davidson

Peter has said he wants to go on, which is great.

Pete Townshend

Peter Doherty is the ultimate rock 'n' roll nihilist, the ultimate rock 'n' roll f***wit.

Kevin Kelley

Peter does everything for us. He's probably one of the most underrated players out there.

Bible Bible

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. (1 Peter 4:7)

Doug Anderson

He was a smart man, he went to my partner, Peter Vogel. Now I can die.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I did talk to him (after the angioplasty) and he sounds wonderful.

Jay Siegel

I don't know where that sound comes from,

Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Lewis Carroll

Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?