Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trevor Nunn

I love to have as much input as possible.

Miyavi

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

Virgil

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Paul Gascoigne

I'm going to do things that make me happy. I have always felt that other people are running my life. I don't want that any more.

The first place we went was Vienna, and the first player we tried out was Toni Fritsch. He had a hard time speaking English at first, but he did master it.

The English website will post the latest research findings and more than 300 pictures and video about the massacre.

Quentin Crisp

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity

Jamaica Kincaid

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

D. H. Lawrence

The English kill off all their poets by the time they're forty

John Banville

The English did many terrible things but one great thing you did was give us this extraordinary language ... and it works for us.

Agatha Christie

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Randeep Hooda

The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.

Jonny Greenwood

There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.

Graham Nelson

Once the announcements were actually heard, there was a slow but gathering response. by the end of the first year, an avalanche.

William Hazlitt

No truly great man ever thought himself so.

It's tough when you work with a kid six hours a day and the other 18 hours, no English is spoken at the home. What kind of progress can you make?

Jan Morris

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

It's very tough if you have no English or very limited English to get through that Web site.

David Boies

Is the term 'concerned' a term you are familiar with in the English language?

Dinah Sheridan

They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!

It was a good experience for me to see missionaries and what they do. The children's English was really good. It's pretty sad to see how they live, but we just have to pray that things will get better.

I've improved a lot since my first year, even since my first training camp, ... I think I've made steps forward each year. I didn't speak English when I first got here, I didn't know where to go and I didn't know anybody. That was intimidating. But to see Patrick and to talk to him and work with him every day, that was great. I learned a lot and I know I'm ready.

Syd Barrett

I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.

Abraham Cowley

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Edward Sapir

It is well known that the tense systems of French, English and German teem with logical inconsistencies as they are actually used.

Robin Gibb

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

It's like the English bard tradition, it's something that a lot of people know so well.

Rafael Benitez

It's good for English football to have a team in the final.

Wayne Rooney

It's good to have him back in English football - and it will help him as well.

James Fenton

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

Mireille Guiliano

In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

Joe Cocker

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

P. J. O'Rourke

I read good. I was an English major.