The Queen and Royal Family were strong supporters of London's bid and it was a delight to show Her M...
LORD COE My job now is to put the team together that will be with it right the way through to 2012 and as soo...
LORD COE Jim Sloman and his team can help us deliver those goals and I am delighted that they will be working...
LORD COE Our vision is to present to the world, in 2012, the best Games ever, for athletes, for the Olympic f...
LORD COE A week's work now is worth four down the collective path. Our plan over the next 18 months will have...
LORD COE Sport and the needs of athletes are central to London's plans for the Games, and I know that Jonatha...
LORD COE The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countrie...
JONATHAN COE I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.
SEBASTIAN COE Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport v...
SEBASTIAN COE I'm going to try my best. I'm just going to come out here, get base hits and see what happens.
ADAM COE I just try to get base hits. If they go over the fence, that's fine.
ADAM COE It helps a lot when those guys are out there pitching well. If we can get then a couple of runs, tha...
ADAM COE We were trying to make some noise. I told them that noise would get him rattled.
ADAM COE All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
SEBASTIAN COE World records are only borrowed.
SEBASTIAN COE At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who ha...
SEBASTIAN COE Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to tr...
SEBASTIAN COE Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.
SEBASTIAN COE I'm a Chelsea season-ticket holder, and I've supported them for 37 years, so any judgment of...
SEBASTIAN COE I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23...
SEBASTIAN COE Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's abou...
SEBASTIAN COE We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn...
SEBASTIAN COE It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other cou...
JONATHAN COE Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can...
SEBASTIAN COE You can tell by watching him that he's a lot more seasoned and has a lot more poise than the other g...
CHARLIE COE The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why y...
SEBASTIAN COE I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced again...
SEBASTIAN COE They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.
JONATHAN COE It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we ...
SEBASTIAN COE From our initial observations, our hard work has paid off. This is a springboard for the next 30 day...
SEBASTIAN COE Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, she's probably going to b...
JONATHAN COE I can be a bit impatient sometimes. If I'm really focusing on something, I can expect everybody ...
SEBASTIAN COE To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him,...
SEBASTIAN COE Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE...
SEBASTIAN COE [Overhearing this, the former head of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, r...
SEBASTIAN COE It was nice to have him come in. He's got some junk he can get some guys going with.
ZACH COE Dickens, obviously, is a great hero.
JONATHAN COE During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally...
SEBASTIAN COE Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
SEBASTIAN COE I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled,...
SEBASTIAN COE I stand to lose everything I have worked a lifetime for.
CHARLES COE I don't know, I don't really have a view about what my contemporaries are doing, except that I enjoy...
JONATHAN COE Frankly, unless he has the courage to stand up and live up to his oath of office to enforce the laws...
BARBARA COE As soon as you meet him, you understand he is sincere, he is real and he is passionate. He's willing...
BARBARA COE I lashed them pretty good. I'm just so tired of it. There's nothing more we can do as coaches. It's ...
CHARLIE COE I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
JONATHAN COE I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambit...
SEBASTIAN COE I wasn't pleased with the way we played in the second half. It seemed like we just got complacent. Y...
CHARLIE COE I have to constantly rein in my nostalgia for the 1970s, in case it takes me over and I become one o...
JONATHAN COE But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.
JONATHAN COE The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
JONATHAN COE As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off...
JONATHAN COE I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and mor...
JONATHAN COE But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short s...
JONATHAN COE If he doesn't, we are liable to have to go to court. This violation was pretty egregious.
COE SWOBE [Coe, a knighted exemplar of measured eloquence, does not giggle and break into giddy trot lightly. ...
SEBASTIAN COE Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ.
JACK COE Bacon is a really good-looking kid who can do a lot of nice things. There's a lot of good about Powe...
CHARLIE COE I don't mind summer rain. In fact I like it. It's my favourite sort.' 'Your favourite sort of rain?'...
JONATHAN COE Getting off to a good start like that was big. Whenever you play a team like Southern, getting out f...
CHARLIE COE When chasing dreams be careful of what nightmares might be waiting for you behind closed doors.
GARY COE We need to be confident. We need not to blink.
SEBASTIAN COE We're lacking in the size department. Big linemen are at a premium right now. We went after several ...
CHARLIE COE You can only be hurt by the words of others if you aloe those words to hurt you.
GARY COE Sometimes the demons we fear in the dark reveal themselves to us when we turn on the light and look ...
GARY COE A child is no longer a child when they have learned of death. It will haunt them by day and fill the...
GARY COE Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more ab...
JONATHAN COE We're beating the bushes and doing everything we can. We've got a junior college lineman coming in (...
CHARLIE COE We're going to be expecting that every play of every series in every game. We know they can do it no...
CHARLIE COE That was as good as the offense has looked since I can remember. That was just about perfect.
CHARLIE COE I don't think either of them are serious. They may just be fatigue more than anything. We'll have to...
CHARLIE COE This was a big win for this team. This will do a lot for the confidence of these guys. A whole lot.
CHARLIE COE I'm pleased. That's what I'll say. I'm not happy, but I'm pleased. Given where we started, we've mad...
CHARLIE COE I knew it was going to happen. You could just feel it coming on. You could just tell that we weren't...
CHARLIE COE I'm pleased with how far we've come. I'm not happy with where we are. I think we need to get better....
CHARLIE COE We knew we were going to get better. We had to. We have too much talent not to. Were we expecting to...
CHARLIE COE This is a great opportunity for both young men and their families. It says something about our progr...
CHARLES COE Randolph has come up big last two weeks. He's a strong kid and deceptively fast.
CHARLES COE Honestly, the only thing I thought about was, 'I hope we don't have to call this game.' But fortunat...
CHARLES COE The defense isn't giving up a lot of points, but teams are getting a lot of yards. We'll have to go ...
CHARLES COE I've been on those guys from the first day I got here in 2003. From Day 1, I wasn't real happy. But ...
CHARLES COE I think this is great for both conferences and both schools. It's a great way to showcase to people ...
CHARLES COE I think he's really beginning to catch a lot of eyes out there. He's just a little raw right now, be...
CHARLIE COE The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venue...
SEBASTIAN COE My motivation to compete was always about improving one year to the next. At 34, I realised I'd ...
SEBASTIAN COE I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently ...
SEBASTIAN COE I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.
SEBASTIAN COE But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
JONATHAN COE It's going to be probably after this week. We've got signing day this week, and I don't want to do t...
CHARLIE COE I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
JONATHAN COE I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and s...
JONATHAN COE As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into p...
JONATHAN COE My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my mo...
JONATHAN COE So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in his...
JONATHAN COE Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.
JONATHAN COE Everybody is excited by his experience and enthusiasm. Everybody is impressed.
JONATHAN COE I'm trying to write a nonfiction book at the moment, slot it in between the novels, and it really is...
JONATHAN COE I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with thei...
JONATHAN COE I don't know if England lags behind the States or is ahead of the States. We've finished with the '7...
JONATHAN COE Someone emailed me and said The Closed Circle reminded them of reading Trollope.
JONATHAN COE Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
JONATHAN COE Well, mainly it's because I'm not a writer who's comfortable with writing about periods that I can't...
JONATHAN COE The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countrie...
JONATHAN COE It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countri...
JONATHAN COE Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
JONATHAN COE It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to be...
JONATHAN COE You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were sti...
JONATHAN COE The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I thi...
JONATHAN COE I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready ...
JONATHAN COE I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much a...
JONATHAN COE When I moved to Sheffield and went to a secondary modern in the Seventies, there were certain challe...
SEBASTIAN COE I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on ...
SEBASTIAN COE There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into oppositi...
SEBASTIAN COE I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.
SEBASTIAN COE They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.
JONATHAN COE You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don't want them coming down heel ...
SEBASTIAN COE Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one tha...
SEBASTIAN COE One of our focuses with the high school players was recruiting local and in-state kids. We lost a lo...
CHARLIE COE I think I'm probably just an old-fashioned Tory. I don't wake up each morning trying to figu...
SEBASTIAN COE All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
SEBASTIAN COE The more open the process can be, the better the bill we are going to get in the end.
COE SWOBE Anytime we can get more fish into the river it's a good thing. And if the river is clear enough to s...
ED COE He took it upon himself to put his hand out for me and that meant a lot.
ED COE Yeah, but he probably would have done that anyway.
ED COE It's real scary to think about it could have been any one of us.
JANIE COE He had blood all over him. The man stabbed him right there (pointing to her neck). It looked really ...
JANIE COE Many of the topics and techniques we discuss in genetics and cell biology classes can be hands-on or...
JANIE COE The people, they're not nice. They're not helpful. My [resident advisor] is supposed to be the first...
KATRINA COE It was only going to be a matter of time. It's just ridiculous. I'm not a bad person. I'm not here t...
KATRINA COE We hope they continue to underestimate us.
MICHAEL COE It's too early to get into that. That's something we'll address once the merger closes.
MICHAEL COE You'd have to have people going out and driving around, so it's not something that we spend a lot of...
MICHAEL COE We want to do even better.
MICHAEL COE We believe that Stanley Works currently represents a good risk/reward opportunity for longer term va...
NIGEL COE If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomina...
DAVID ALLAN COE I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
DAVID ALLAN COE Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
DAVID ALLAN COE Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I ...
DAVID ALLAN COE Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.
DAVID ALLAN COE Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.
DAVID ALLAN COE I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.
DAVID ALLAN COE All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
DAVID ALLAN COE One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.
DAVID ALLAN COE Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
DAVID ALLAN COE I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked t...
DAVID ALLAN COE It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that w...
DAVID ALLAN COE I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the w...
DAVID ALLAN COE Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy n...
DAVID B. COE Funerals are for the living. If we have not done for the dead while they were yet in flesh, it is to...
ROELIF COE BRINKERHOFF One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.
DAVID ALLAN COE In fact, if it had been up to me I would have had them take a black screen and drop in front of me o...
DAVID ALLAN COE Death Row is a lonely place. Silence echoes through the walls with as much force as a cannon being f...
DAVID ALLAN COE I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm discipl...
DAVID B. COE I guess you could say I've always been country; maybe more so than a lot of the other acts you liste...
DAVID ALLAN COE I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
DAVID ALLAN COE Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
DAVID ALLAN COE Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.
DAVID ALLAN COE I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it...
DAVID B. COE I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thin...
DAVID B. COE Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRON One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
LORD SALISBURY I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
LORD BYRON In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom...
LORD BYRON There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, ...
WALTER LORD You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
WALTER LORD I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
WALTER LORD It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more a...
WALTER LORD Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no...
WALTER LORD Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
WALTER LORD I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situa...
WALTER LORD Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
WALTER LORD What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one...
JACK LORD The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduct...
LORD HAILSHAM Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRON Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
LORD BYRON Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD BYRON If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD BYRON There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
LORD BYRON Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, lear...
LORD MOUNTBATTEN What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD BYRON That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
LORD MELBOURNE To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
LORD ACTON And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on pape...
PHIL LORD The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
LORD MELBOURNE What really matters is what you do with what you have.
SHIRLEY LORD Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!
LORD PALMERSTON