Quotes by English/England authors (page 31)

"Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes"

"How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!"

"By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important"

"The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose"

Anne Campbell, Politician

"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary"

Anna Friel, Actress

"You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8"

Anne Hathaway, Actress

"I wrote my first play when I was eight"

Pam Gems, Playwright

"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world"

John Evelyn, Musician

"The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination"

Alexander Cockburn, Lawyer

"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant"

Pete Waterman, Producer

"I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book"

Joe Strummer, Musician

"I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person"

Richard D. James, Musician

"No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done"

Thomas Nash, Writer

"I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along"

Rose Tremain, Novelist

"That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week"

Samantha Fox, Model

"With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end"

George Crabbe, Poet

"I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?"

Joe Cocker, Musician

"Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars"

James Jeans, Physicist

"Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma"

Philip Guedalla, Historian

"The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly"

Michael Faraday, Scientist

"The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times"

Matthew Bourne, Dancer

"I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice"

Catherine McCormack, Actress

"He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity"

Nick Faldo, Athlete

"How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?"

Mary Renault, Novelist

"Good wits will jump"

George Villiers, Politician

"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind"

William Shenstone, Poet

"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night"

Rupert Brooke, Poet

"When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound"

Jane Horrocks, Actress

"Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from"

John Still, Clergyman

"I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well"

Marian McPartland, Musician

"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer"

Rachel Ward, Actress

"Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?"

Edward Teach, Celebrity

"I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home"

Richard Briers, Actor

"Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John"

Alfred Noyes, Poet

"A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper"

John Pym, Politician

"The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that"

Adrian Smith, Musician

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