English Quotes

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

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.

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S.

There may be a better one somewhere, but I haven't caught her at it.

I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.