Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carice van Houten

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.

Alan Moore

When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.

Clive Barker

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

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

What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

Frank Woolley

We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

Fred Hoyle

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Fred Frith

Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.

Fred Frith

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

Rose Tremain

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

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.

James Payn

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

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.

Penelope Cruz

I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.

Per Petterson

If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.

Francis Bacon

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

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Jacob Bronowski

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Jacob Bronowski

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Anthony Horowitz

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

Augustine Birrell

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

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.

Stephanie Beacham

To this day I will not be called Steph.

Victor Hugo

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

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.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

A. P. Herbert

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

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.