Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fanny Burney

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

Edward Young

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

Edward Young

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

Eden Phillpotts

We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

Eden Phillpotts

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Anna Lee

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.

John Milton

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Jeremy Bentham

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Jeremy Bentham

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

John Galsworthy

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

J. G. Ballard

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.

Gary Neville

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

Brian Aldiss

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Brian Aldiss

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Richard Lester

Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

Bryan Procter

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.

Bryan Procter

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

Ray Bradbury

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

Anthony Horowitz

There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.

Nick Rhodes

To be able to experiment with new forms of distribution and technology comes naturally to the group and we're excited about the reaction we'll get.

Kate Christensen

The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.

Stephen Wolfram

There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

Adelaide Anne Procter

We always may be what we might have been.

Edward Burnett Tylor

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.