Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toby Young

I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here.

Webb Simpson

I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.

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.

Ross Davenport

We're excited about Beijing, with Simon and the rest of the British guys. I think we can really do something there and shock a few people.

F. Sionil Jose

In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

Alice Temperley

I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.

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.

Alan Moore

I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells' stories are potentially apocalyptic in some sense or another.

Dennis Farina

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

Francis Bacon

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Ernst Mayr

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

Henry David Thoreau

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

Robert Sheckley

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

William Herschel

... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good as ours, if not perhaps better who can say that it is not extremely probable, nay beyond doubt, that there must be inhabitants on the Moon of some kind or other?

William Herschel

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

William Herschel

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

William Blake

Execution is the chariot of genius.

William Cowper

Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Leonard Maltin

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Neil LaBute

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Lili Taylor

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Leo Tolstoy

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Peter Kreeft

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.