Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by British Authors - Page 19

I generally only eat one meal a day, which is pretty unusual for a restaurant reviewer. It's not that I have a problem with food; I'll eat anything that doesn't involve a bet, a dare, or an initiation ceremony.

I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

I do rather rejoice when people come up to talk to me about railways.

During a performance of 'Blood Brothers' in 1990, I forgot to sing. I was so moved by what my co-star Kiki Dee was doing, that I completely missed my cue.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?

All things are possible, especially in the realm of superheroes.

I am a self-critical perfectionist.

I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

People think that being rich is all about having money. But the times I've had the most money is when I've been unhappiest.

My loyalty starts and ends at my front door.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

Cycling taught me to recognize that mental health is on a sliding scale. Some days you are up and some days you are down.

I did go to UCLA for art, but the other option was going to Sarah Lawrence and doing creative writing all the way. So that is part of the reason I love to read so much.

I love watching Crufts on the television, especially the agility tests; I find them very impressive.

Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting are anything but conventional, and you can't frown on Steve Waugh for playing his slog-sweep because it's so effective.

In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast.

I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.

Cooking at home with fresh ingredients means you know what's going into your food.

I used to love the Wu-Tang Clan. They took my school by storm, by which I mean the three kids in my year who listened to hip-hop. I skipped lectures to go and buy their second album, 'Forever', and then rushed home to listen to it.

Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and loss of the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Farming is a major cause of climate breakdown, the biggest cause of river pollution and a hefty source of air pollution.

I don't have too much of a grand plan.

You can go anywhere in the world, and people's faces light up when they put delicious food in their mouths.

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

There will always be people who will first wait for somebody's comment and then attack them. I'll say they are just cowards. They have no opinions of their own. It's very easy to be a sheep; it's not easy to be a shepherd. One should not give a damn about these trolls. One should not give them importance at all.

And the purpose of small talk is not to be controversial, clever or even interesting. It's simply to fill the silent void with a small gesture of common humanity. It's a spoken smile, a verbal handshake.

There are a million and one things I'd love to get stuck into. Travel, finally getting to spend some time with the family. And I'd love to become a magistrate.

For me, it's all about keeping an open mind; if you are always learning then you are always improving.

Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not giving guru status to dull business people. It fits in with capitalism's anti-mythic myth: the idea that we have liberated ourselves from the dangerous illusions allegedly propagated by art and politics.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Any reasonable person looking at the policy results... the substance... the facts would agree that the Trump presidency is one of the most successful in American history.

I suffer panic attacks, anxiety attacks, seemingly random triggers that immobilise me, render me useless but simultaneously unable to explain myself.

My private life is the most precious thing to me.

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

I'm a believer in feeling good in your skin, so I put bikini pics on my Instagram.

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

Lucian Bute had the world title for five years, he made nine defenses and he's a good, good fighter. The fight before that, I beat Andre Dirrell, who comes from a good pedigree and is a hell of a southpaw. It just shows you the kind of fighter I am when I focus and do my job.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Who do you know, who could come out on a flying carpet? P. Diddy standing at the bottom, come out like a concert, dancing, oozing confidence, and then get in and take somebody out? Come on, do you know anybody in the history of the sport that did what Prince Naseem did? I ain't trying to brag, but I was bloody good at it.

The public wants to know that their political leaders will stay true to the promise made to them that Brexit means Brexit.

High risk is high adrenaline.

If the cash runs out, it's like a heart attack for you and your business. Keep that front and centre of your mind, and you will have financial security and not be struggling to pay the bills.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Erykah Badu sang with me at a sold out show in San Francisco which was great.

I wouldn't want a tattoo at all. They're difficult to cover up.

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis.

My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking.

There is no normality in life.

It's all about nutrition. You can train, train, train all you want but I always say you can't outtrain a bad diet.

In my childhood dreams, I pictured Italy as paradise. I longed to be the next Sophia Loren, living in a village with winding cobbled streets where washing hung from windows and everybody gesticulated and shouted amicably. Ah, but life surprises.

Imagine owning a one million pound coin. Where would you put it? The pressure. I never even take my wedding rings off after the time I lost one for days, only to find it in a random trouser pocket.

I've got good genes. My dad was a martial arts instructor - and he was good.

I'm always looking for a way to get some spice into my cooking but, generally, the French don't like spicy food.

The way I drive, the way I handle a car, is an expression of my inner feelings.

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

I've never wanted to be your average Joe. I've always wanted to stand out from the crowd - to be someone looked at and admired, and scrutinised. I'd much rather be scrutinised or criticised than have no one look at me at all.

Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.

We don't need Kanye to spit on grime instrumentals to show grime is great.

I am committed to glamour.