Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

Joanne Harris

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

Alan Sugar

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

Alexander Herzen

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

Mark Lawrenson

He can be as good as he wants to be; that's how good he can be.

Nick Faldo

I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

Lennox Lewis

I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.

Dinah Sheridan

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Edmund White

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

Thomas Hobbes

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Mike Butcher

We're looking for a guy that can step it up.

What's invaluable about Bernie is that he has gotten a number of us eggheads together and has translated what is scientific gobbledygook into English so that our neighbors and friends can understand it,

Joe Cocker

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first.

With my parents, it's always in Slovak. With my siblings, it's English unless there is something that needs to be said that shouldn't be said, then we'll throw in a different language.

Brian Clough

At last they've got a manager who speaks better English than they do

Percy Bysshe Shelley

All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

All of my friends know that English is NOT my forte! This is exactly the kind of help I needed to round out service to my clients.

A lot of people had not seen the shows because they were not English speaking but were TV watchers, and were enthralled with them and wanted more.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

Jonathan Coe

Also I had financial worries because it took four years to write and we were living off my wife's income all that time, which wasn't very great.

David Gower

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

They understand English but we didn't understand a word they were saying.

Fred Frith

It struck me as not very interesting just to take what was exactly in the film and stick it on a C.D. and put it out as a soundtrack.

Joanna Trollope

It's not so much hearth as family life which is where we all, I'm sure, learn (or fail to learn!) all our life skills for the future.

Walter Pater

For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, only an additional, and as it were incidental grace, upon this expressive landscape.

Ruth Rendell

Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language.

For 6 days a week I aim to get in between 18-23 miles.

John Wilmot

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

Rumer Godden

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.