Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Russel Wallace

Nature seems to have taken every precaution that these, her choicest treasures, may not lose value by being too easily obtained.

David Warner

On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

Greg Rusedski

Murray will be the top British player for many years,

David Prowse

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

Najib Razak

More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.

John Deacon

No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.

Goran Persson

Should the British fail on that, then it will be terribly difficult for Austria to resolve.

Gerry Adams

Sinn Fein's position on policing is very clear-cut -- when the British government delivers on the commitments it has made, I will deliver on the commitments I have made.

Bernard Cornwell

Mind you, even in places where I'm much better known, I walk in anonymity, mainly because folks know authors' names, but not their faces.

Jim Capaldi

Next to the drawing - I'm not really even trying to write a song - I had written a letter and this character who had become Mr. Fantasy.

Jack Straw

Obviously, it is a matter of grave concern that a British citizen has been killed,

Alan Bates

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

Jason Statham

So I used to put money in my pocket while working on the street corners, selling perfume and jewelry, and other goods that were supposedly expensive.

Jonathan Coe

So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in history or in British culture or whatever.

Mitchell Reiss

So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue.

So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys.

Keith Emerson

There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.

Keith Emerson

We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.

Keith Emerson

Since this our first show, I think they'll see us sweat a lot.

Julie Christie

When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat.

Douglas Haig

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

Douglas Haig

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Douglas Haig

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

Daisy Donovan

Me and my married friends catch ourselves going, 'Oh, thank God we haven't been left on the shelf for ever,' because that is now the ultimate fear.

Antony Hewish

My first research was concerned with propagation of radiation through inhomogeneous transparent media and this has remained a lifelong interest.

Peter Davison

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

Nelson was a great hero. In the whole span of British history he still stands as one of the greatest. The legend reminds us of the great value of heroic leadership when a nation falls under fire and stress,

Terry Hayes

Movie studios could learn a thing or two from British publishers. There is an intelligence, and a respect for writers; things that you hope for and never get in Hollywood.