IMDb Guide to UK Films - Database of over 21000 titles of UK television and movie drama.
British Films Catalogue - Synopsis, and production information for a selection of British films.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Titles Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Titles
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Titles The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Titles
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Titles She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Titles
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Titles "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Titles
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Titles The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Titles
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Titles Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Titles
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Titles We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Titles
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Titles Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Titles
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Titles "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Titles
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Titles Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Titles
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Titles You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Titles
