English Bob Quotes

#1. Now, I know I'm going to break your hearts, but I am forced to leave you. You must call up all your fortitude, and try to bear it ... "Bob swore!" - as the Englishman said for "Good night", when he first learnt French, and thought it so like English. "Bob swore," my ducks!" (Chapter XXII)

Charles Dickens

#2. US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

Daniel Barenboim

#3. Football is the love of my life. I would never say I don't want to play. Somebody could say that this game is meaningless. Who is it meaningless to? I guess people who are watching the game? Or the people who are playing it? It's definitely not meaningless to us.

Shawne Merriman

#4. My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.

Bob Hope

#5. It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

Billy Bob Thornton

#6. My folks were English ... we were too poor to be British.

Bob Hope

#7. My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he's not paralyzed or anything, but he's had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.

Channing Tatum

#8. I want you so much, he said with such heart-tugging sincerity that to be fair, a translation from Turkish to English would have to flip a coin between "want" and "love.

Bob Shacochis

#9. There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.

Bob Hope

#10. This world is not the sum total of God's resources
on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

Janet Erskine Stuart

#11. In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

Iggy Pop

#12. In our time, Universalism as such, like a spinster lady late in life, took a husband, and although they agreed to hyphenate their married name, by now the offspring of that union often simply call themselves by the husband's name, and in time may not recognize her name at all.

Max Coots

#13. Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

Cynthia Ozick

#14. What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#15. But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool, soaked through with the sweet chloroform of utter sadness. - Ward 9

Will Self

#16. Once upon a time You dressed so fine

Bob Dylan

#17. English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie ... in the shower.

Bob Hope

#18. She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.

Bob Hope

#19. I am just so happy and thrilled and I am so glad Mr. Hefner chose me.

Anna Nicole Smith

#20. It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.

Tim Hunt