Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Adrian

Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer - but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it's all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration.

Bjork

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.

Ray Winstone

Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

Howard Carter

Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.

Howard Carter

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.

Howard Carter

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

Phil Collen

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

Peter Hermann

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.

John Hartson

When you are playing with good players, it doesn't matter if they are Argentinian, German, Welsh or whatever. Good players can join in and understand their team-mates on the pitch. In most of our games, you can't hear what the other lads are saying anyway, because of the noise of the crowd. I'm sure Shunsuke will want to learn English so he can enjoy the other lads' company, but there are so many Japanese people here watching him that he isn't going to be lonely.

We will migrate as technology migrates, and more often than not, we're the ones leading the technology drive. This product is here to stay.

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

Francis Quarles

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

Roger Daltrey

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

Jamie Redknapp

But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.

Francis Bacon

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Robert Bridges

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.

Ann Macbeth

It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.

Ann Macbeth

We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important.

Ashley Tisdale

My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it 'Celebrity Life Magazine.' I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco.

Thomas Carlyle

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Barry Gibb

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Barry Gibb

Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

Barry Gibb

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

Henry Fielding

One fool at least in every married couple.

Frederick Marryat

It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

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.