Iconic British Quotes & Sayings

The reefer butt is called a 'roach' because it resembles a cockroach ... cockroach ... cockroach ... — Hunter S. Thompson

I remember people saying to us, "You're too nice. Hollywood is going to eat you up and spit you out." I never listened to them. — Jimmy Fallon

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it. — Daniel Kahneman

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. — Samuel Butler

To finish a marathon in less than 4 hours, you should ideally be a runner for a couple of years, have completed a half marathon, or be extremely determined and competitive. — Richard Bond

Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing. — Scott Jurek

His attention means nothing if you don't have his respect. — Stephan Labossiere

Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories. — Dennis O'Neil

[God] has established for you [the Arabs] the same religion enjoined on Noah, on Abraham, on Moses, and on Jesus, the Quran says (42:13). — Reza Aslan

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger. — Tina Turner

Dream hurts; yet we never stop dreaming; just like the way love hurts but we still love to love — Munia Khan

The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home. — Kenneth Keniston

In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting. — Kevin Warwick

I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them. — Francis Chan

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself ... very dark in that way. — Janet Fitch

You believe in the future now. It's easy for you, because you love the present. — Matthew Quick