Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Johnson

Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around - decisively - the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries.

Alice Oswald

I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

Jackie Stewart

We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.

David Taylor

We have always been strongly opposed to anything that would threaten the separate identities of the British football associations and that has not and will not change. The present set-up has been around, in our case, since 1873 and we have separate privileges within FIFA and UEFA. From a football perspective, that is more important than participation in an Olympic Games.

Chris Avery

We have already had a sequence of downgrades from British Airways, Lufthansa has reduced its guidance once, and KLM has massively reduced its guidance,

Harold Johnson

We have two British Airways jets parked on our runway.

Rod Eddington

We can survive this, British Airways is a strong company, and will come through this in good shape, but we have to take the necessary tough measures.

Rory Stewart

In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.

Mark Shand

If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Percy Sledge

I'd liked this girl all through high school. After we graduated, we got together for a while, but she left me for another man.

David Mamet

At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will meet an older actor, someone who has been around awhile. He will tell you tales and anecdotes, about life in the theatre. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others, and he will generalize to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about the laws of the stage. Ignore this man!'

David Christian

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

Dave Attell

For me, Molly Hatchet is high school. It makes me feel like I have hair and a future.

Curtis Hanson

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Andre Leon Talley

I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.

Alice Hoffman

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Alice Eve

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.

Anna Chlumsky

My family and school life are important to me.

Andy Partridge

Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn