Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baroness Orczy

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

Derek Jacobi

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

Denis Thatcher

When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep

Charles Kingsley

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

Manolo Blahnik

The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.

Bernard Laporte

Luckily England lost. Otherwise they would have come to Paris with the Grand Slam in mind and been even harder to beat.

David Roach

Madison is the quintessential New England town. And it's because of our secluded wooded areas. Preserving this would ensure higher property values.

Tao Okamoto

I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.

Charles E. Wilson

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Bear Grylls

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Audrina Patridge

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

August Strindberg

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

Arthur Rubinstein

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Gene Meyers

We actually had a little sunshine. It turned out to be a pretty good day. We had a lot of p.r.'s.

Robert Osborne

I'd worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that.

Kathleen Mitchell

He had to come here while negotiations were ongoing. The Hudson was the jugular vein of the Revolution,

Jerry Narron

I've seen Tim Hudson since '99 and I thought Holby might need another day. If Ramirez had been pitching, he would have been in there.

John Cahill

You wouldn't even think of swimming in the Hudson 20 years ago,

Bobby Cox

If everything works right, Hudson will open. It's Hudson's turn this year.

Richard Doherty

It's mostly for the Hudson Valley to work on these new developments.

Ronnie Milsap

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

Gary Shteyngart

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

Dee Brown

Me and James (Augustine) have been through this before as sophomores. You just have to play with a different mentality.

Heikki Kovalainen

I'm a big James Bond fan. I've got a collection of them.

Merry Clayton

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Sarah Hall

James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.

Rob Johnson

James has been in that situation before, so I knew he was going to step up for us.

Bob Bryan

He's kind of laid back but James pulls off his share of tricks.

Maria Shriver

When I look in the mirror, I don't just see a first lady, I don't just see a Kennedy or a Schwarzenegger, I don't just see a mother, a daughter, a wife, a sister and a friend, and thank God, I don't see Warren Beatty.

Tamara Feldman

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

Tina Brown

Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.

Melissa Wagoner

Sen. Kennedy spoke to Sen. Stevens in support of this provision.

Stephanie Cutter

Senator Kennedy has been waiting for the right invitation.

Jackie Kennedy

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.

Robert Dallek

Kennedy was very sensitive to this question of ever using nuclear weapons,

Eileen Hawley

Kennedy does remain the prime landing target for tomorrow.

Emo Philips

You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi!

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Douglas Fairbanks

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Thomas Couture

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Uday Kotak

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

Lee Majors

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

Kevin McCloud

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

Ronnie Milsap

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

Laetitia Casta

I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!

Demetri Martin

Cottonballs are an example of something I'd want to buy, but not have as a nickname.

Danny Huston

Nick was wonderful to have around because he's just such a straight talker,

Dustin Lanz

Nick was unbelievable. He had a stellar night.

Steve Wilmot

Nick Price was one of our most popular champions.

Grant Wistrom

Nick Going?s going out really put a damper on their running game.

Ari Millen

Nick Abraham and I had known each other from Ryerson University.

Johnny Marr

Nick Zinner has been one of my favorite guitar players for a long time.

Kent Evans

People have had nicknames as long as people have been walking,

Robert Turner

We have just scratched the surface of our potential business.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Bill Davoren

She has the potential to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest.

Aubrey Edgmon

She's starting to realize the potential she has.

Jackie Parsley

She wanted to be a varsity starter very badly. You could see she had the potential, but whenever she got on the floor, she wanted to prove too much to me.

Jesse Miltier

She's showing a lot of potential. It usually takes until they're about 3 years old for them to reach their potential, but she's there.

Joe Pokraka

She's only a freshman, but she has the potential to score a lot of points. She's very gifted, she has it all.

Tom Clark

The potential is there for transmissible outbreaks and we want to be able to respond to these as quickly as possible, but also to have up-to-date information,

Chip Taylor

The potential for these waystations is just terrific.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Bob Stoops

Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dean Taylor

There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and evaluated their own players, and other players, better than any other team in recent memory.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Bergen Evans

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....

Peter Agre

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

Dion Harris

We said from Selection Sunday, from that day on, whatever happens, we're going to come out to play to win.

Don Morrow

Variety selection is most important of all factors.

David Blunkett

Read my lips. No selection by examination or interview.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Dick Cavett

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Jane Austen

I have no talent for certainty.

Britt Ekland

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

Brett Favre

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

Henri Matisse

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Antonio Banderas

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Brenda Ueland

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Eric Clapton

Musically, Nathan is in the Top 3 as a bassist.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Anne Byrn

Now that would be way too much for the top of a cake.

Carles Puyol

I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

Arthur Rimbaud

True life is elsewhere

Arnold Bennett

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

Denise Martin

True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Blake Mycoskie

The more you give, the more you live.

Blaise Pascal

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Richard Holbrooke

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

Obie Trice

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

Earl Butz

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Topher Grace

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

Josh McDermitt

One person I haven't worked with yet, who I find hilarious, is Chad Coleman.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.