Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Rotten

(During a gig on the Sex Pistols' US Tour) See the fine, upstanding, young men Britain is chucking out these days.

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.

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.

Inayat Bunglawala

This man has never set foot in the United States; he has lived in Britain his whole life. If he has done something wrong, this is where he should be put on trial.

Nelson Mandela

I told the relatives that he would go to a country trusted by Britain and the United States to serve his full sentence, and the length of the sentence would be determined by the Scottish authorities,

P. J. O'Rourke

We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

Michael Sheen

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

Bill Bryson

I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I'm crazy about my wife - we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn't say that she's the most fantastic human being that's ever lived, but she is for me.

Alexander Medvedev

We run serious business in Great Britain with large industrial partners and energy stations. We intend to hold 20 percent of the fuel market by 2015.

Alan Pardew

A fantastic strike. He'll do well to hit another one in his career.

Rusty Petrea

Now my passion is different. Now my passion is guiding this fantastic thing known as the First Tee.

Dougray Scott

It was very hot, very rugged and quite inaccessible. But I had a fantastic time. The work is the thing that motivates me.

Richard Miller

It was an outstanding show. She's a great show person, and she did a superb job. There was really something for everybody. I looked around and could just see smiles on everyone's faces. It was a fantastic show and everyone had a really great evening.

Graeme Souness

I understand that on Monday, our final offer was rejected, so I think that one is finished, unfortunately. We have made a fantastic offer for the player and really, there is a limit on how much you can spend on one player.

Andy Ball

The women had a fantastic season and will do even better in 2006!

Ciaran Hinds

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

Gary Maurer

We're having some fantastic meals. They sure know how to cook.

Ted Sarandos

'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Lorenzo Romar

It was tough for Jamaal. Jeffers was in there. He's a 6-11 (Jeffers is listed at 6-9) with long arms.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

George William Russell

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Mitch Hedberg

I've always wanted to have a suitcase handcuffed to my wrist.

Jane Asher

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.

Azzedine Alaia

In an ordinary suit and tie, I'd look like a little macho. I'd be ridiculous.

Rosa Bonheur

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

Melissa Marr

He looked good, like sin in a suit.

Mamata Banerjee

Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.

James Galway

They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.

Richard Dawkins

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

Brian Anderson

I'll go back out, yeah. I just need a new (wet) suit and a new board.