Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by British Authors - Page 15

To be accused of ignoring my roots is pig ignorant.

I think it's a flawed philosophy to believe impunity when it's inappropriate.

I live in a beautiful village in the middle of the countryside, and being able to disappear off on my bike for a couple of hours two or three times a week is a wonderful way to relax.

Perfection isn't everything, some mistakes are pretty groovy.

I'm too fast, too sexy, and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine.

My 4 key ingredients for success are my coach, my Forza supplements, my daily food deliveries and my gym.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

I left the Labour Party because I consider it a racist endeavour. I could no longer, in good faith, knock on doors and say vote for me, and by extension get Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister.

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.

As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese - they all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.

In the jungle, you learn about the other beauties in life. In everyday life, it's all about looking perfect, but in there, there's none of that.

'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't have worked any other way. And it turned out to be the first time a fiction film had really been made in a documentary format. I continued to do that, obviously, because it's a fun way to work.

For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

They don't call it the Wall of Death for nothing. The biggest risk is crashing off the top. That's when it gets really messy.

Any fight, if you prepare correctly and you're ready for it, you should be just there to enjoy it.

You need to be a complete fighter - the heart, the chin, the toughness. You've got to have it all.

My pitch is very simple. My name is Theresa May, and I think I'm the best person to be Prime Minister of this country.

It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don't speak about it, it gets worse. You have to talk about your problems.

I don't want to jeopardize my relationship with royalty by saying too much.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

We've got to start making people realise that it's a proud thing to run a business, to export your goods around the country.

It's so important to come up with the right specification of cars - they need to be loud, they need to be fast.

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

The core of my life is Islam, my religion. Without that, I have no strength, no belief in God or in myself.

I believe in God, Almighty. I'm a Christian.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

Rights compliance helps effective outcomes, it does not hinder them. That should come as no surprise because the 'human rights' in the Human Rights Act are the rights adopted in the aftermath of the horrors of the second world war, and are designed to protect all of us from oppression.

I hate being on my own, I rely on my friends and my family and my job to keep me occupied and to make me feel comforted and wanted and needed and all that stuff.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

The thing that was most constant when I was growing up was just complete support and adoration from my parents.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

There's so many different kinds of beauty.

Half of those people who experience mental health difficulties do so before the age of 14. The problems begin early - so early interventions are essential.

My mind might be conservative, but at heart, I was always a socialist.

One-planet living means not only seeking to reduce our own consumption, but also mobilising against the system that promotes the great tide of junk. This means fighting corporate power, changing political outcomes and challenging the growth-based, world-consuming system we call capitalism.

Whether that was in the Chepauk Stadium in Madras or at the Ilford Cricket School, there was a daily diet of cricket run by my dad. It was a hard school but he knew what he was doing. Everything I achieved was down to my dad.

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

If I do find myself walking up the aisle and dancing at my own wedding reception, I want the first dance to be both spontaneous and dramatic.

Solitude is the companion of warriors.

War is a perversion of sex.

For a bit I was going mad trying to do martial arts twice a week and go to the gym and do weights, but that can make you ill if you balance it with flying around and living like I do, so I narrowed it down.

I was living in a house in the West Village of New York and trying to be Carrie Bradshaw. I wrote a whole 5 pages about this character who wasn't going to wear high heels because it was not empowering. I've read that article 1000 times, it's so boring! I was writing really cliched women's stuff which is exactly what I didn't want to write.

I was a huge pop music fan as a kid, but the bands I was into were like 5ive and N-Sync. It was like watching a cartoon. There was so much going on, and the production was so well mixed. Stevie Wonder was able to give you those melodies and production but back it up with such creative integrity and real musicianship and artistry.

'Onward' was a song I wrote in Montreux, in Switzerland, when we were there camping out for the whole winter. In the summer, Montreux is a really, really big summertime-touristy, full-of-life kind of place. In the winter, it closes down.

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

When I was an MP, John Prescott barracked me in the House of Commons, shouting: 'Woolly jumper! Woolly jumper!'

I'm excited by going 85 mph, head-first, down an ice track.

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

I like being Jewish and I married a Jewish girl. It's like a way of life and it's good to be able to instil some of that sense of being in your kids. All of that makes me seem as though I am quite observant but actually the flipside of this is I don't know if there is a God or not.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'