Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

Kerry Collins

That was a tough way to open up the season ... all the hype and everything and playing in New England, which is about as tough a place as you can play,

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.

Matthew Quick

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

Jacques Santini

We have a lot of respect for England,

Bill Cummings

We've made many great matches. In fact, one of our matches is taking a trip to England this spring. They don't all turn out that way, but you never know.

William Shakespeare

I cannot speak your england.

Joseph Banks

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

David Beckham

Whoever comes in as England manager it is up to him to pick the new captain, but at the end of the day I'm not going to give it up easily. There are the European championships to come and then maybe another World Cup.

Gin Wigmore

I'm very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing.

Gene Ween

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.

Viswanathan Anand

There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.

Ken Sawyer

The Penguins and our fans will always be very grateful to Craig.

Becky G

I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

David Stern

I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.

Bill Vaughan

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

Sue Wilson

The abusive person usually doesn't understand the game and are usually the loudest. Fans see officials abused on TV, and they think it's fine to do it on the high school level.

Ken Hitchcock

We have unbelievable fans and they're disappointed. We have to stick together.

Ellen Key

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

L. Doctorow

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

Bette Davis

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

Bill Vaughan

All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

Mary Alexander

We have a generation of young people who have grown up with recycling, and now they can't throw a can away. I think that will happen with water conservation. The priority should be in helping people learn how to do it themselves.

E. Helm

Windows Live is the next generation of MSN.

Kofi Annan

I think this is a once in a generation opportunity that we have to do this,

Kevin Powell

I think this generation has a very 'me, me' attitude, and it's to our detriment.

Bobbi Brown

Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

Bernadette Peters

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

Arsene Wenger

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

Arsene Wenger

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Rain Bojangles

It is better to be redundant than remiss.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Bill Hicks

The Voice of Reason is in us all...and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.

William Shakespeare

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

Paul Lieberstein

I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.

John Nash

I thought of the voices as... something a little different from aliens. I thought of them more like angels... It's really my subconscious talking, it was really that... I know that now.

Hank Azaria

I have no new voices - they've all been used.

William Shakespeare

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

William Shakespeare

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.

Mike Judge

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

Chris Isaak

He was really cool, ... We really connected. His voice just aches.