Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors - Page 11

A lot of kids don't get the chance to play sport.

There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving - she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious institution. She said, 'What if you are wrong?' and I answered that rather briefly, and that's gone viral.

Laughter is this amazing and healing thing.

We love live because of the roughness round the edges, the excitement, the madness, and stuff going off on all sorts of weird tangents. It's like hosting a jolly in your house. We're welcoming people in and giving them snacks.

I used to have a spider phobia, but I'm pretty fearless now.

My children are my priority and always have been.

You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.

I am a 'champagne socialist,' and I'm proud of it.

I love everything about food; if you took it away you would be depriving me of one of my greatest pleasures. I love the whole process of it - buying it, cooking it, eating it, talking about it, talking over it.

I run every day. It keeps me sane and it's my meditation.

To disarm a troll, you don't try and destroy them straight away, you take onboard what they're saying and then destroy them.

The Bake Off' taps into nostalgic feelings about your mum baking in the kitchen. It's a big ruddy comfort blanket, and you get attached to the bakers. It also genuinely has a good heart.

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.

I think 'Lost' didn't invent the flashback, obviously. It's been a cinematic tool. It's been around almost as long as cinema has.

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

I may have a talent for acting, but I am incapable of doing anything else.

Valentine's Day isn't always as much fun as many of us would like.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

There is a balance between mindful that you don't upset anyone, yet maintaining an authenticity that is not wrapped up in the minutiae of people's judgments of you.

When I got clean and sober, that was a major change in my life.

I used to dance around, I used to sing a lot, I remember, and beat box.

Alcoholism and country music are both tremendous aids to self-dramatisation.

Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.

I'd love to be able to play the piano.

When I'm doing a play like 'Betrayal,' I have to be careful not to get stimulation overload.

We made 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments of Irish history, really. 'Jimmy's Hall' would seem to be a smaller story 10 years later.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

I'm quite a ruthless, cold-hearted bastard. I always have been.

Unfortunately, there tends to be an easy way of doing things in life and the Haskell way. As a 12-year-old I knocked my front teeth out while chasing a friend in the rain. I'm the type who offers to serve wine at drinks parties and accidentally pours it down one of the guests.

I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.

A lot of people don't see, when we lose and go through tough times, how upset and disappointed we are.

My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.

I'd say friendships are one of the most important things in football.

I've shown the players geese videos. I've shown them why geese fly in V formation, what everybody's role is, how geese support each other and, most importantly, why you fly further together. That's the bottom line. Geese wouldn't be able to migrate to the sun without all traveling together. It's the same for us.

Starving isn't sexy. What's sexy is a healthy appreciation for food.

Everyone says teams should work harder when they are losing but sometimes that makes it worse.

If ailing British companies such as Rolls-Royce, Land Rover, British Airways and Cadbury can be turned around, there is still hope for the BBC.

What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music.

I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.

There is always pressure on managers at whatever stage of a season because we want to be winning games and we want to be winning football matches.

I would love to take care of myself and look like Victoria Beckham every time I leave the house. But for me that is not realistic.

I was born a cripple, with two club feet, and mild polio in the left leg. I was in orthopaedic boots right through to my teenage years and, unfortunately, the fashion then was for light shoes. I discovered very quickly that I had a sharp mind and an exceedingly sharp tongue.

More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.

I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.

I was always proud of the fact that Spandau and Duran Duran were like Oasis and Blur or the Beatles and The Rolling Stones - where you pick two bands of a generation and you're either on one side or the other.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

We go to Dubai quite a lot, so I've seen it being gradually ruined.

We have to defend the migrant workers and give them our support and demand that they have the rights that workers here have from day one, but absolutely hate the system that forces people to leave their country, leave their homes, leave their families, to go somewhere else to be exploited.

It was a big decision to leave Everton and it took me a lot of time to think over.

Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.

I don't ever want to think my time is up as a performer. I have been afforded the opportunity to sell 150 million albums, to travel to places I never thought I would go. I'm going to keep on performing. I hope it never ends.

I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's just very easy. I don't have to brush it.

Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.

Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.

My grandad was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz musician; I was a boy soprano in the church choir. But the first performance with Deep Purple was something I'll never forget. All elements were working brilliantly.

There's so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the 'Am I good, am I bad, am I being judged, who likes me, who doesn't like me...'

Stockings are tricky for girls - you worry about them falling down all night and the idea that you dress up at 7pm so that your boyfriend can get excited about six hours later is just too much effort.

Unsalted butter is a sin against the Holy Ghost.