Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Naim

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

Thomas Dekker

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

Thomas Dekker

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Thomas Beecham

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Thomas Beecham

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Ian Mcewan

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

Ian Mcewan

As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.

Ian Wright

My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

X. J. Kennedy

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.

Wentworth Miller

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

William J. Mayo

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William John Wills

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Buck Leonard

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.

Nayvadius Cash

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

Nate Ruess

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Antoine Lavoisier

Languages are true analytical methods.

Bertrand Russell

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Shaun Rinier

We just went through some of our unresolved language items. I think we got most of them resolved. We're going to work on it a little more (today).

Stan Freberg

Will you let me talk? I'll have to learn the language all over again!

Jose Contreras

We get to talk because we speak the same language,

William Shakespeare

Ay, is it not a language I speak?

J. R. R. Tolkien

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think so, because of the language that had to be learned and understood. The last thing you get is the technique because the language you can put together. But to be able to put the fundamentals together at the speed necessary to be successful takes some time. You can't have a lot of thought going through your mind.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

Tia Mowry

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Thierry Henry

I am always honest, and I am not the sort of player to say, 'Oh, I love Arsenal' and then sign for someone else. I think if I was unhappy, I would say that, but I'm not. I do love Arsenal.

Imelda May

I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

Idina Menzel

I would love to work with Matt Damon.

Ian Mckellen

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

Irwin Thomas

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

Indiana Evans

When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.

Gale Gordon

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Gaines Adams

I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.

Anthony Coley

We have to make sure it works. A victory for us is to make sure that savings are passed on to the consumer.

Ken Lewis

I wish we had passed the school bonds.

Craig Patrick

We didn't sense that there was any problems with the shoulder. He passed the physical.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Sen Brownlee

If it had one more vote it would have passed the Senate.

Jon Banner

We've been wanting to do it for a while, we talked about it more seriously after Peter passed away.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.