English Quotes

It was great as an actor to be given the story line I was given but I didn't expect Craig to stay so it was a lovely twist when I found out they'd decided to keep him.

It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people.

If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me.

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.

Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

I am all for the short and merry life.

And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.

Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.