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3818 English Quotes
3818 English Quotes
I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.
David Bowie
Able
About
Always
Anything
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There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
David Bowie
Being
Come
Composer
Effort
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I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.
David Bowie
Because
Best
Doing
Else
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All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
David Bowie
About
Art
Does
Focused
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Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
David Bowie
Always
Art
Been
Change
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.
David Bowie
Agent
Awe
Behind
Believe
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson
Speak
Fool
Wise
Man
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Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.
Benny Hill
Perfect
Parachutes
Nobody
Mean
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe
Soul
Body
Diamond
Polished
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The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.
David Beckham
Family
Criticism
Worry
Hurts
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A foe to God was never true friend to man.
Edward Young
God
Foe
Never
Friend
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You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.
Elton John
Songbird
Sing
Trap
Bird
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
Emily Bronte
Love
Puny
Powers
Being
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Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.
Elvis Costello
Good
Manners
Bad
Breadth
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I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.
Benny Hill
Against
Girl
Half
Like
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson
Background
Become
Clear
Itself
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
A. C. Benson
Being
Boy
Duty
Emotion
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
A. C. Benson
Continuous
Fiction
Form
Newspaper
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. Benson
Age
Life
Little
Long
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. Benson
Fear
Life
Loss
Misfortune
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
A. C. Benson
Best
Escape
Interest
Only
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
A. C. Benson
Fact
Good
Important
Knowing
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Life is a sweeter, stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he is still thee to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
A. C. Benson
Admire
Honor
Serve
Experience
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A. C. Benson
Failure
Dread
Success
Awful
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
A. E. Housman
Write
Ability
Endowed
Nature
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A. E. Housman
Sharpen
Blunt
Mellow
Personal
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
Florence Nightingale
Life
Live
Splendid
Gift
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. Housman
Live
Build
Cheap
House
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
A. E. Housman
Young
Think
Lose
Sure
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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. Housman
Razor
Skin
Stray
Line
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Great things have small beginnings.
Francis Drake
Great
Things Small
Beginnings
Have
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Patience
Conquering
Virtue
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman
Drinking
I
Evils
Read
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action
Ian Fleming
Once
Happenstance
Twice
Coincidence
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I'm never shaken or stirred.
Idris Elba
Never
Shaken
Stirred
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Adele
People
Weight
Starting
But
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The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
Adele
Focus
Appearance
Surprised
Me
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I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
Adele
Playboy
Face
Hair
Like
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
Adele
Heartbreak
Definitely
Deeper
Sensibility
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I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
Adele
Really
Need
Stand
Room
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
Adele
Voice
Happened
Before
Tap
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
Adele
Nervous
Stage
Help
But
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Adele
Love
Hearing
My
Audience
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I've never been more normal than I am now.
Adele
Normal
Never
More
Been
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Adele
Black
Like
Johnny
Cash
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
Adele
Looking
Nice
But
Comfort
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Adele
Music
Eyes
Ears
Make
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I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
Adele
Quite
Loud
Bolshie
Big
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I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.
Adele
Longer
Buy
Papers
Tabloids
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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.
Adele
Warts
All
Songs
Think
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