Adrian English Quotes & Sayings

Every publisher or agent I've ever met told me the same thing - that Irish readers don't want to read about the bad old days of the Troubles; neither do the English and Americans - they only want to read about the Ireland of The Quiet Man, when red-haired widows are riding bicycles and everyone else is on a horse. — Adrian McKinty

If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated. — Noam Chomsky

Our relationship to money reflects how we feel about our power to affect the world. Since money is a mirror of our consciousness, the more comfortable we are with being powerful, the more money we are likely to create in our lives. — Shakti Gawain

Linguists aim to describe language while teachers prescribe how English or any other language should be properly used. — Adrian J. Williams

The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned. — Bo Gritz

When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like when you do research and things inspire you. If you're smart enough, then obviously you don't take it literally. The inspiration will come out later somehow. — Francisco Costa

DEMETRIUS
... do I not in plainest truth
Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?
HELENA
And even for that do I love you the more. — William Shakespeare

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. — Josh Lanyon

Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer - but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it's all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration. — Chris Adrian

The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are. — Robert Kiyosaki

Alastair Moock is the second coming of John Prine. — Ellis Paul

After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident - they don't call it the global village for nothing. — Andrei Codrescu

My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that. — James Nesbitt

Aren't you failing English?" I asked.
Angeline flushed. "It's not my fault."
"Even I know you can't write an article on Wikipedia and then use it as a source in your own essay." Sydney had been torn between horror and hysterics when she told me.
"I took 'primary source' to a whole new level!"
Honestly, it was a wonder we'd gotten by for so long without Angeline. Life must have been so boring before her. — Richelle Mead

On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that. — ASAP Rocky