Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Katharine Whitehorn

Hats divide into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

Sean Connery

His name is John Mason, a British national incarcerated in The Rock in 1962.

Stewart Gary

It hurts me not to have them. We can't pretend it doesn't matter. It's like a British Invasion set without the Beatles.

Jeremy Bulloch

I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything.

Rhianna Pratchett

I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.

T. S. Eliot

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

John Thaw

When he's solved that particular clue, then he's back to reality and he doesn't like it. I think that's why he drinks more than most.

Ian Gow

I think we have made a British degree affordable.

Bradlee Pelt

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

Philip Purcell

John and I have never disagreed about the businesses.

John Gartland

John always has a vision, with great, broad-stroked kinds of goals.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

John Edward

John Kerry has what it takes ... to be president of the United States,

Michael Meehan

John Kerry has a record in the military that he's running on, not from. Everything the U.S. Navy sent to Sen. Kerry, we'll post on the Web site.

Nicholas Burns

John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.

Pete Carroll

John is talking to everybody, all the time. That's the way he handles his business. He's got a marvelous spirit.

Donna Norris

I would tell him the 'Bad Man' took her and did this to her. The name just kind of stuck.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Jim Abbott

I think it's probably the most revered record in sports. I don't know that there's any record in sports where people could readily name the first and second guy.

Paul Larsen

It is Jesse Ventura times 100. She's got a thousand times as much money, 100 times the name recognition. She has a sterling reputation for honesty.

Stephanie Young

When they say the name Middleton, you don't know who to root for. So you give up and root for all of them.

Alice Cooper

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Tanya Chaplin

I think that when they went out they were a little tight because they were trying too hard. But that's actually not surprising to me in that every single one of them, this is the first national championships.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Ward Grant

He was so proud of his heritage, and his national pride is legendary.

Mark Grindstaff

He has wrestled in many, many national competitions.

Sean Dockery

He doesn't get the national props he deserves. Without him, we would not be sitting here today.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

Bob Hughes

We try to keep it rock 'n' roll. Everybody's welcome.

Christopher Lee

We threw a lot of rock yesterday, and we're throwing more rock this afternoon.

Scott Bertoli

I thought Wednesday was rock bottom. Apparently, it can get worse.

Dick Bennett

I think Batista's the rock on that team.

Chris Blight

He's been a rock back there for us.

Troy Brown

I actually feel like a rock star. I feel like I'm important here.

Ed Stern

He was pivotal. He was sort of the rock of the Playhouse: organized, disciplined, always in control.

Rob Sheffield

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.