Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors - Page 10

I am quite stingy when it comes to giving runs away.

It's difficult when you're on loan, especially when you're not a young player who people may have sympathy for.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Always, as a coach, you have to be thinking not to flood the players with information. You have to think what's key for the player, for that team, and how do we deliver it in a way that it might stick and have an effect.

Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.

I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

Small things amuse small minds.

I went on safari and there were all these lion cubs rolling around like cats and they were so cute and I just wanted to hug them! But you can't coz you'll get eaten... It was really hard!

When I was in Cardiff, playing with the National Orchestra of Wales, they said they get letters from people complaining if they're smiling during the concert. Nuts, isn't it? As if you have to respect the solemnity of the music by not smiling. Music is this joyful thing that enriches our lives, and you're not supposed to smile?

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Gut health is everything, it's the second brain, where many of our hormones are produced.

Everyone that I have taken the mick out of, or told a story about, is someone I know properly or someone who has been a team-mate, and I know can take it. I am not stitching anyone up.

I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.

People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.

Spaghetti Junction is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen at night.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

I can easily go up to 19 stone or so if I'm not careful.

You're never going to be bulletproof, but if you're feeding yourself good food and making sure you're eating the right supplements, I think you reduce the chances of getting any niggling injuries.

All men in their 40s want to be in rock bands, and I reserve the right to be in a pub band at some point.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

I always could cook. Mostly it was down to osmosis. I spent so much time in the kitchen with my mum as a kid. She was always talking to me about what she was doing.

Sometimes fear can bring performances out from you.

As a bowler I think I am more wicket-based than some.

There are so many people who have helped me along my journey, too many to name really, but most important were my family.

Without a doubt, the majority of historical period dramas tend to be told from a certain perspective. At least in America, black people have some visibility in period dramas, although it's usually in the form of slaves or servitude.

When I was younger you think you know it all and after games you probably just go for some food or sit on your PlayStation. Now I take it a lot more seriously and recover properly because I know I need to give myself the best possible chance to be as fresh and as fit as I can for the next game.

The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.

It's great to be able to find a way to release your music and do what you want to do artistically and not have to just worry about being accepted by the major label industry.

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet.

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

I'm a big Birmingham City supporter and seeing the fans dressed as Peaky Blinders is one of my proudest moments.

My dad constantly tells me I should calm down, but I feel so sad when I see places I've known since I was a child closing. I burst out crying when a local pharmacy closed the other day; it's just going to become a shop that nobody has much of a need for. But I am trying to move with the times.

Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.

I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

I always think of Ireland as a place for complex ideas and prose. I like Irishness. I like Irish culture and Irish literature.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

Don't take social media seriously. Don't buy into the hype.

Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking questions: 'Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?' You're being Sherlock Holmes.

I improved my died by dropping a lot of carbohydrates like bread, rice and pasta and now I'm eating a lot more fruits and vegetables.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Sexuality is often tied in with something you feel you lack in yourself and look for in others.

We're still trying to figure out how to let men be vulnerable, to realize there's strength in vulnerability, and that it's how you fill out the circle of masculinity.

When you look at some of the greatest people and players in the world they all stand for something outside their working lives.

Normal is not a thing. No one's actually normal.

Front squats and trap bar deadlifts are the two best big compound movements for quad growth.

I actually felt sorry for Liverpool bands like Bunnymen and Wah!, having this immense pressure of following the Beatles. I suppose I responded to that challenge by being nothing like them. I carved my own thing.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I like my boxing and jiu jitsu and that kind of stuff and one thing I always enjoyed from an early age was shooting. My godfather got me into it. It started with airguns and shotguns and that kind of stuff.

People know what authentic communication feels like, so having someone else handle your social media/commenting doesn't feel honest to me.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

It's nice when you can enjoy yourself and make people smile.

How I shall miss Alan Rickman, his beautiful command of English, and a voice he played like a musical instrument.

It's always a balance... being clear-headed but being aggressive and as combative as you need to be.