English Quotations

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

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

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

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

They talk most who have the least to say.

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue.

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.

At that level, every goal is like a knife in the ribs.

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane, and the color bar of his tail is the color stripes of a plane's rudder.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

English music is white - it evades everything.

My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

Every publisher or agent I've ever met told me the same thing - that Irish readers don't want to read about the bad old days of the Troubles; neither do the English and Americans - they only want to read about the Ireland of The Quiet Man, when red-haired widows are riding bicycles and everyone else is on a horse.

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.

We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

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

Don't forget this club nearly went out of extinction last year.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.

I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would love to be a housewife and have a chateau in the South of France, I would love to be a singer that travels to cafes around different towns.

I love the city and the people here. I've been with them for many years and I fought alongside them.

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.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation.

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of.

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

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

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.

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

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that.

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part of my life, and I love it. Thank God my mom put me in American school because I'm able to be working in the States, and it opens a lot more doors being half and not being only one. It's cool because I get to turn it on and off.

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.