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Love is nothing because those who do something for the love of it do it for nothing. — Mark Forsyth

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors. — Bill Forsyth

So Shakespeare stole; but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your old socks and then darns them. — Mark Forsyth

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

Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul. — Bruce Forsyth

What's wrong with writing about love? Everybody longs for love. — Kate Forsyth

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up. — Bruce Forsyth

The glorious insanities of the English language mean that you can do all sorts of odd and demeaning things to a book. You can cook it. — Mark Forsyth

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation. — Peter Forsyth

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

I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list. — Bill Forsyth

I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up. — Bruce Forsyth

A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich. — Mark Forsyth

They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer. — Bruce Forsyth

Oscar Wilde said that "All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime," and then got sent off to Reading Gaol to reconsider and write ballads. — Mark Forsyth

So just to recap, polyptoton is a favorite of Jesus, Shakespeare, and John Lennon. — Mark Forsyth

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master. — P.T. Forsyth

You must forgive them, my child. Forgiveness is a part of penitence. — Frederick Forsyth

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood. — Peter Forsyth

If you are brave of heart, sharp of wit, strong of spirit and steadfast of purpose, there is nothing you cannot achieve — Kate Forsyth

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not. — Peter Forsyth

Almost all great fortunes are based upon one cracking good idea and the guts to go with it — Frederick Forsyth

When there is no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth." Dawn of the Dead — David P. Forsyth

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

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

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

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

Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING — Kate Forsyth

It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough. — Bruce Forsyth

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home. — Bill Forsyth

On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop. — Bruce Forsyth

Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality. — Mark Forsyth

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. — Bill Forsyth

We touch the last reality directly in prayer. — P.T. Forsyth

Bruce Forsyth is my hero, and the thought that I'd be in a TV show with him was incredible. — Anton Du Beke

... Shannon's fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself,
Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool. — Frederick Forsyth

Kuwait was always historically part of Iraq. Like Nehru invading Portuguese Goa. — Frederick Forsyth

He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer. — Bruce Forsyth

Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better. — Mark Forsyth

Had she been broken and healed all awry, like a bone that had not been properly set? — Kate Forsyth

I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards. — Bruce Forsyth

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

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

A dutiful son has to remember not to slouch or swear or, in Hamlet's case, murder the old bat. — Mark Forsyth

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash. — Bill Forsyth

If you look back far enough, everything is stolen and every country invaded. — Mark Forsyth

dispatcher, Alfredo Suarez, had to check the weather. — Frederick Forsyth

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up. — Kate Forsyth

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us. — P.T. Forsyth

Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food. — Mark Forsyth

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

I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors. — Bruce Forsyth

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes. — Bruce Forsyth

The specific murderers of the SS therefore hide even today behind the collective guilt theory. — Frederick Forsyth

It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want. — Bill Forsyth

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

You can shuffle my deck any day! — Bruce Forsyth

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal. — Peter Forsyth

If somebody learns how to phrase things beautifully, they might be able to persuade you of something that isn't true. — Mark Forsyth

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy. — Frederick Forsyth

Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy. — Bruce Forsyth

A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress. — Bruce Forsyth

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done. — Bill Forsyth

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid. — Mark Forsyth

To light a candle is to cast a shadow — Kate Forsyth

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure. — Peter Forsyth

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

Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. — Mark Forsyth

Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me. — Kate Forsyth

I am not doddery ... doddery I am not! — Bruce Forsyth

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave. — Kate Forsyth

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in. — Kate Forsyth

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show. — Bruce Forsyth

Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/. — Mark Forsyth

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us. — Peter Forsyth

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong? — Bruce Forsyth

There is no collective guilt, ... guilt is individual, like salvation. [p.28] — Frederick Forsyth

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad. — Bill Forsyth

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth. — Bob Hoskins

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears. — Bruce Forsyth

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves. — Kate Forsyth

It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him. — Peter Forsyth

The studio system reminds me of the stock market. — Bill Forsyth

It could still be a good night if you play your cards right. — Bruce Forsyth

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

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction. — Bruce Forsyth

But the words did not come. They never do, when one needs them. — Frederick Forsyth

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

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom. — Frederick Forsyth

The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives. — Kate Forsyth

For though one antithesis is grand, a long list of antitheses is divine and is technically known as a progressio. It was a favorite of God and Dickens — Mark Forsyth

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

The Bible is chock-a-block with such unnecessary but beautiful antitheses. God, whatever his other failings, is a great rhetorician. — Mark Forsyth

People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that. — Bruce Forsyth

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past. — Kate Forsyth

I don't really enjoy filming. — Bill Forsyth

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

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences. — Kate Forsyth

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex. — Bruce Forsyth

Who needs sense when you have alliteration? — Mark Forsyth