My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.


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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
OLIVER EVANS
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and inv...
OLIVER EVANS
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather t...
OLIVER CROMWELL
Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
OLIVER CROMWELL
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
OLIVER CROMWELL
We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
OLIVER CROMWELL
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
OLIVER CROMWELL
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
OLIVER CROMWELL
God made them as stubble to our swords.
OLIVER CROMWELL
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged...
OLIVER CROMWELL
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
OLIVER HERFORD
My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday...
JAMIE OLIVER
How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is i...
OLIVER TAMBO
German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everyt...
OLIVER MARKUS
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ...
OLIVER SACKS
In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even us...
BARRET OLIVER
Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which...
BARRET OLIVER
I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from not...
BARRET OLIVER