English Quotes

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.

Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.

Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!

We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.

They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end.

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.