Top 100 Forsyth Quotes
#1. In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor.
Richard Benjamin
#2. P. T. Forsyth's book Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind. These are its opening words: 'It is, perhaps, an overbold beginning, but I will venture to say that with its preaching Christianity stands or falls.
John R.W. Stott
#3. Kate Forsyth's Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#4. Bruce Forsyth is my hero, and the thought that I'd be in a TV show with him was incredible.
Anton Du Beke
#5. Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.
Bob Hoskins
#6. Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
Bruce Forsyth
#7. That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.
Bruce Forsyth
#8. After the snap, Chad took off like a gazelle and the quarterback hurled a 30-yard bomb that rocketed straight to him. Fast as Chad was, Joshua ran him down like a Discovery Channel cheetah. It was no contest.
C. Michael Forsyth
#9. Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.
Mark Forsyth
#10. I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.
Bruce Forsyth
#11. Search your own life for the story only you can tell. The best thing about writing from life is that you can be sure of using original material. And no research is needed beyond the time you spend looking deep inside your own heart.
Elizabeth Held Forsyth
#12. Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
Bruce Forsyth
#13. A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
Bruce Forsyth
#14. Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun.
Mark Forsyth
#15. On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?
Frederick Forsyth
#16. You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.
Bruce Forsyth
#17. I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.
Bruce Forsyth
#18. Pot itself has nothing to do with pots and pans, but comes from the Mexican-Spanish word potiguaya, which means marijuana leaves. And marijuana is a Mexification of 'Mary Jane' for reasons that everybody is much too stoned to remember.
Mark Forsyth
#19. Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.
Peter Forsyth
#20. At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.
Bill Forsyth
#21. Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
Bruce Forsyth
#22. The period is one of the most complicated and concepts of classical rhetoric. Nobody in the ancient world could quite decide what it meant, but they were united in the belief that it was terribly, terribly important.
Mark Forsyth
#23. I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
Kate Forsyth
#24. Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
Bill Forsyth
#25. It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.
Bill Forsyth
#26. Angry letters of complaint, redundancy notices and ransom notes will, if written in careful hypotaxis, sound as reasonable, measured and genial as a good dose of rough Enlightenment pornography.
Mark Forsyth
#27. What they do no' understand, they fear, and they hate what makes them afraid, for they think it is a sign o' weakness.
Kate Forsyth
#28. Position for his colleague in Secret Intelligence would be just the reverse. Sir Mark was having
Frederick Forsyth
#29. The studio system reminds me of the stock market.
Bill Forsyth
#30. I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
Kate Forsyth
#31. Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
Bruce Forsyth
#32. It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
Bill Forsyth
#33. War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.
Kate Forsyth
#34. Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
Kate Forsyth
#35. It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.
Bruce Forsyth
#36. The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.
Frederick Forsyth
#37. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.
Mark Forsyth
#38. Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.
William Forsyth Sharpe
#39. Only the lame could love and only the maimed could mourn
Kate Forsyth
#40. Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.
P.T. Forsyth
#41. She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.
Kate Forsyth
#43. No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.
Bruce Forsyth
#44. If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.
Bruce Forsyth
#45. It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
Frederick Forsyth
#46. There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
Bruce Forsyth
#47. Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.
Bruce Forsyth
#48. There are several ways of making quick money but in the general list, writing a novel rates well below robbing a bank.
Frederick Forsyth
#49. My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.
Bruce Forsyth
#50. It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.
Peter Forsyth
#51. Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.
Mark Forsyth
#52. Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
Kate Forsyth
#53. I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's all been incredibly rapid - a year, a year and a half. And it's not a concern: it's an obsession. It's something very close to hysteria.
Frederick Forsyth
#54. By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again
Kate Forsyth
#56. It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
Kate Forsyth
#57. What's wrong with writing about love? Everybody longs for love.
Kate Forsyth
#58. Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
Kate Forsyth
#59. Gambling in medieval France was a simple business. All you needed were some friends, a pot, and a chicken. In fact, you didn't need friends - you could do this with your enemies - but the pot and the chicken were essential.
Mark Forsyth
#60. People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.
Bruce Forsyth
#62. I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.
Bill Forsyth
#63. If we want a better world, we must never cease to think about what kind of world we want ... and we must not be afraid to do whatever it takes to make the world the way it should be. It is not enough just to talk. We must act!
Kate Forsyth
#64. I wish I could paint like Raphael," Lucio said. "I'd paint you! You should smile more often - it's like dawn breaking over a snowfield.
Kate Forsyth
#65. To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
Kate Forsyth
#66. All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands like mine. You're going into show business.'
Bruce Forsyth
#67. As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'
Kate Forsyth
#68. Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I never make a point of making people call me Sir. It doesn't matter to me, though; it was a great honour to be knighted. I'm very proud of it.
Bruce Forsyth
#69. The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.
Frederick Forsyth
#70. The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.
Peter Forsyth
#71. It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
Bruce Forsyth
#72. I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.
Bill Forsyth
#73. So just to recap, polyptoton is a favorite of Jesus, Shakespeare, and John Lennon.
Mark Forsyth
#74. You must forgive them, my child. Forgiveness is a part of penitence.
Frederick Forsyth
#75. But the words did not come. They never do, when one needs them.
Frederick Forsyth
#76. The specific murderers of the SS therefore hide even today behind the collective guilt theory.
Frederick Forsyth
#77. The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
Bruce Forsyth
#78. I'm the leader of the pack, which makes me such a lucky Jack, for openers, here's a pair of cuties, here's my darling dealing beauties.
Bruce Forsyth
#79. You can spend all day trying to think of some universal truth to set down on paper, and some poets try that. Shakespeare knew that it's much easier to string together some words beginning with the same letter.
Mark Forsyth
#80. It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.
Bruce Forsyth
#81. You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.
Kate Forsyth
#82. We touch the last reality directly in prayer.
P.T. Forsyth
#83. What if your advisor talks only about returns, not risk? ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you the range of possible outcomes you face. If he won't, go to a new planner, someone who will get real.
William Forsyth Sharpe
#84. Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.
Peter Forsyth
#85. It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.
Peter Forsyth
#86. In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?
Bruce Forsyth
#87. It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.
Bruce Forsyth
#88. She paced her room all day, tossed sleeplessly in her bed all night. At dusk, she sat in her window and poured all her longing and desire into her songs, hoping he would somehow hear her and return.
And he did.
Kate Forsyth
#89. Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.
Bruce Forsyth
#90. Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.
Peter Forsyth
#91. It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.
Bruce Forsyth
#92. The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the can-can behind your back. The unknown unknowns.
Mark Forsyth
#93. And what do you think true love is? her father had asked her. 'Loving even when all hope is gone,' she had answered.
Kate Forsyth
#94. I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
Bruce Forsyth
#96. Schoolchildren are asked to write essays on what William Blake thought about the Tiger; despite the fact that William Blake was a nutjob whose opinions, in a civilized society, would be of no interest to anybody apart from his parole officer.
Mark Forsyth
#97. Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
Kate Forsyth
#98. My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.
Bruce Forsyth
#99. Antanaclasic, which means that it keeps using the same word in different senses.
Mark Forsyth
#100. May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.
Kate Forsyth
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