Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Willard Van Orman Quine

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

Vinnie Jones

The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.

Wilfrid Laurier

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

Liu Wen

When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'

Nathaniel Philbrick

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

Om Puri

Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.

Tom Wolfe

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.'

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Patricia Wysocki

When I look back, it was like putting a Band-Aid over it. It cheered him up for a few minutes.

Bill Belichick

Doug had kicked a lot of good ones in practice. We'd done it a few times and he banged it right through there, so he didn't have time to think about it today.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready.

Eivind Reiten

Credibility takes years to build, but a few hours to destroy.

Steve Wilson

And we'll pause, just for a few moments, ... to let Sam and his dad, Scott, watch their last crop-dusters together.

Tracy Egeland

Evan was very sharp. Come the third period, we were able to step up and score a few goals.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

India does not have a problem of people grabbing share from a fixed pie. India is one of the few nations where the pie is getting bigger.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Aeschylus

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

Oscar Wilde

Tread lightly, she is near/ Under the snow,/ Speak gently, she can hear/ The daisies grow.

Joey Giordano

We're waiting for investigators to speak with her to find out what else has happened.

Granth Sahib

When You are with me, what more could I want? I speak only the Truth.

The League

Who will speak out when they come for me?

Claudia Black

Never trash-talk yourself or others. Stay curious. Speak your truth.

Cormac McCarthy

Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.

Source Unknown

Too many of us speak twice before we think

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Howard Nemerov

Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

James Branch Cabell

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

James Gleick

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had....