Famous quotes containing the words you think you, you, british, series and/or composition:
“The only thing experience teaches you is what you can’t do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.”
—Elaine May (b. 1932)
“You can say anything you want, ‘cause I’ve heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death ... which you ain’t gonna get.”
—Quentin Tarantino, U.S. screenwriter and director. Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen)
“I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
—George Chapman c. 1559–1634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910)
“Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.”
—Shelley Bovey, U.S. author. Being Fat Is Not a Sin, ch. 1 (1989)
“Every thing in his composition was little; and he had all the weaknesses of a little mind, without any of the virtues, or even the vices, of a great one.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)