A secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time
Oliver FranksWhen asked if Ken believed in safe sex his answer came: 'Of course I do; I have an Iron Bar around the bed!'
Ken DoddThe moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany.
David ClennonThe flaming ramparts of the world.
LucretiusI won't be watching the women's final, that's for sure. I'm not into women's tennis any more.
Lleyton HewittYesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa.
Alcee HastingsPornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it
D H LawrenceI'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.
Joan RiversLeadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Vance PackardI'm in Miracle on 34th Street. If you've seen the film, that's me. I believe in Father Christmas.
Iain DowiePeople think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.
David JamesChildren are what the mothers are
Walter LandorAll disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb
Joseph JoubertI got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. [Fairy nuff]
Eugene JarvisWomen are constantly asking me who my doctor is and referring to my chest. I don't understand what everyone's obsession with boobs is about. Every other person in the world has a pair.
Jennifer Love HewittSet your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Bo JacksonMy stomach is all crinkly and my boobs, they're like the ears off a dog.
Kate WinsletWe have the best political system yet devised for man. But we have to make it responsive to the people, make it work as planned.
Bill GoldbergOh, yeah, I do movies; I forgot. They see them on TV. I forget that anybody knows me
Shannon TweedTalking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
Ben JonsonThe secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats.
John LowensteinI count only the hours that are serene
Maurice MaeterlinckNo one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa CatherConceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May AlcottNow cheaply bought, for thrice their weight in gold
John FerriarA moratorium around election time to end some of these shenanigans would be appropriate.
John MajorThere are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe.
Joshua Willis AlexanderTo tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home!
Lesley GarrettI hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
Anthony TrollopeHow these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
John AubreyOf course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad.
Jay LenoMy chances of playing have increased by the injuries and the fact they aren't taking another bowler, but I don't want to get too big for my boots - if I get picked it's going to be a massive bonus but if I'm just part of the squad then that will be equally good
Liam PlunkettThe house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Edward YoungAcademies are leading the reforms that will radically
improve secondary education in this country.
David MilibandWinning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
Damon HillHe's a wonderful bowler, but he's mentally lazy and, after the World Cup euphoria, slipped into a comfort zone. He needs to lose weight and get fitter. He didn't do enough running [on Zaheer Khan]
Bruce ReidAs threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell BoveeAccording to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.
Robert De NiroI believe that we're all connected to each other with an invisible spiritual thread through which we can transmit energy emissions and positive thinking. I want you to use your visualisation techniques.
Uri GellerOf all the ways that I thought I could go out, that wasn't one of them. Definitely not a rock star way to go out [on suffering a brain haemorrhage]
Bret MichaelsI wanted to be a journalist. I thought I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
Bill NighyIt's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
Queen Elizabeth III've never played him before. He was always one of those guys that you look at and say, 'God, I really don't want to be out there with him playing three out of five.' It kind of showed today [on playing Hewitt]
Amer DelicThe career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honoured by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao TzuBeing is the great explainer.
Henry David ThoreauOne of the great, modest, amusing, jolly, heart-warming broadcasters of our time [Richard Whiteley]
Sir Jeremy IsaacsVaughan has been a wonderful leader, quietly inspirational and shrewd. To be the best, England must beat the Aussies in Australia, but let's rejoice in the moment
Michael ParkinsonThe more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
Jamie Lee CurtisThere was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared
Ursula Le GuinMaybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
Jim Carrey
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