Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors - Page 12

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Since Newcastle I've had a fantastic time at Blackburn and then here, at West Ham.

I'm very lucky I went to a nice school and I live in a very lovely part of London.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

You need emotional intelligence; to be happy to take risks; to be competitive and to look forward not backwards.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

I found I was being pushed to one side and I was being ear-marked as being thick, which is a very damaging thing to be told as a young kid.

It's important as a team that you don't get too excited with a win and you don't get too disappointed with a loss. You have to stay very steady, very focused on that middle ground.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

At cricket, I was mainly a bowler and tried to bat. I hit the odd four or six and then got out! In athletics, I was mainly triple jump and 200m.

Every kid goes through puberty, wondering what to do about girls and struggling with homework, and every adult has been through that.

Sometimes life has to tell you a little more forcefully: 'Slow down or change direction.'

My final fight was called 'Unfinished Business' - and I finished it.

My siblings and I have got the worst teeth in Britain.

I am fine if I am on a red carpet - I know what to do. You stop and smile and pose for a picture and that's fine.

We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.

It's all fun and games when you're scoring goals but there will be a time when I'm not and I just have to try and keep doing the same things. Hit the target and, you know, see what happens at the end of the game.

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

While scuba diving off the British Virgin Islands about 25 years ago, our boat's anchor got stuck. I dived down to release it, but I got separated from the boat and was stranded as it sped away. I had to swim for an hour to the nearest island with all my scuba kit on before I was rescued.

I decided a very long time ago that I would refuse to be defined by trauma and would only be defined by success, when and where it comes.

My mum raised me in a home without mirrors. She's a staunch feminist and wanted us to know that what we look like is the least interesting thing about us.

I do feel sorry for my younger brother, he used to field a lot.

Ever since I was a presenter on CBBC and used to see the 'Strictly' judges walking around Television Centre, I have wanted to be on the show.

I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.

When you're a pop star it doesn't mean you just get free stuff.

I love to sing country music and pop music.

Money's Too Tight to Mention' was about as big an anti-Thatcherite message as you can get in pop music. There was a vast swath of the British media at that time that were rabid Thatcherites; do you think they are going to take kindly to me? Then I got hit by the left, because we were too popular.

I'm Ross Barkley and I've got to create a better version of the player I am and show what I can do, not try to be like someone else. That's part of what I hope I can achieve here, to make people aware of who I am as a player and show everyone what I can do.

Sometimes it's easier to chase a title than it is to lead.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

I was a complete and typical only child. I was bookish, and sport was out of the question anyway. I had read all of Dickens and most of the volumes of Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia by the time I was 11. The only time I was popular at school was the day I won the debating competition for my house.

I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.

So I think as a biologist I would like us to focus on this planet and finding solutions to sustaining humanity, to improving people's lives globally, but doing our absolute utmost to preserve as much biodiversity as we can, knowing that we have already been responsible for the loss of thousands of species.

Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.

I cry all the time.

You're never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They're completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher taste: it hasn't got that bass-note beefiness.

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one.

Hot Gossip were revolutionary in some of the dance they did in the 1970s.

On a personal level, I never worry - I'm always up for the challenge, especially at City, and will keep my head down and work as hard as I can to play as often as I can.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

To be perfectly honest, most fans see a different game to players. I am not being rude when I say that.

From a very young age I'd learned to put on a brave face because of losing my mum. I'd always make jokes if anybody tried to throw sympathy at me.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I'm not a man with many plans, but offers come in and I think this one or that one will be really interesting, so I say yes.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

People who are deaf or hard of hearing need all the support we can give them.

I don't know what new laddism was really.

Confidence comes from other places, not just how you look.

I can't dance. There's some things I have to admit I can't do, and dancing is one of them.

It doesn't matter how much polite self-deprecating fluff you have on the outside if you don't have a steely something in the middle that says, 'You know what, I'm actually really, really good at this, and this is what I can do, and I'm going to do it.'

Airplanes are a good place to concentrate because you get no emails, no phone calls.

Before, if I'd had a stressful day, I'd go to meet my friends in the pub and have a moan. Now I go to yoga.

I fly a lot, particularly to and from the U.S., so I take extra care to hydrate my skin: moisturiser, eye cream, hydrating masks, Evian spritzer.

My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.

I think I can be quite cheeky at times.