Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors - Page 13

Obviously, I know there are players here who earn more than twice what I do. But that's not the issue for me.

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.

Not that I am saying I will never manage again. I want to spend more time with my family and, since we live in Cornwall, that rules out most long-term options.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.

You look at the Blur comeback, it was so smooth - so smooth - compared to The Verve.

I am manager at Chelsea. I manage and represent elite and world class players and this for me is an amazing job I've spent nine years cultivating all my energy into. I'm not looking for another job.

It's all good being there for people when things are going well and smoothly but what really comes through is how you operate with someone when they need you the most.

Fresh air and exercise. That's all you need to stay slim and feel better about life.

The human mind can be sexy.

Setbacks make you want to be better again.

Heavy metal is immortal, but we're not.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

I never do anything just to be crude or in your face.

I'm a bit of a loose cannon, but it keeps everyone on their toes!

The scientific method is about trying to remove our own bias and subjectivity, and be as objective as possible. But then you can put it back into context and you're allowed to be emotional and human about the way you engage with it.

I really enjoy what I do. And if you want a lasting career, you have to work at it. Keep it current. Keep it fresh.

I do really good banana bread. And I make a chocolate cake with fudge icing that's bloody delicious.

I'm hardened over many years. You toughen yourself for whatever job. You either take the good with the bad or don't bother.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

Doing regular exercise puts me in a good mood.

That's how I lived for 10 years in Bristol after graduating. I just stayed in my student flat and paid very little rent. It was lovely, and part of me still misses that very lazy lifestyle. I was known as the magician on the street, and I used to dress a little eccentrically in a cloak.

We have to get out of this cultural mindset of putting badges on ourselves and playing the martyr spinning 1,000 plates. We need to be spinning six plates, and doing it well. Otherwise plates tumble and break.

Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into blind panic about numbers and switch off.

If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

I don't think my insomnia is fixable: I think it's in my DNA.

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

I've always been clumsy, the one who knocks glasses over.

I get a lot of mud slung at me, and yes, I do take planes, but I feel that's my life. My life is to travel and also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of an irresponsible oil company.

I was nobody in Nashville and I was thankful for that. I had to get by on my talent.

It is embarrassing that a player would give up his career and the chance to compete for the biggest prizes in the game just for money.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

I was in 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,' and I like my bad boy movie movies.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Show me someone who has never made a mistake in their life, and I'll show you a liar. It happens.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

As an ambassador for the aid agency Cafod and the Anthony Nolan Trust, I need to be sure that my public support for those charities is a help for their work, not a hindrance.

We are under no illusions that we have no given right to win things, but winning the FA Cup is not enough.

When you get to Spurs you know the difference between the lesser clubs and the big boys. It's a different experience.

Getting a grey beard's not cool.

I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones.

I've been brewing my own beer with this ex-army bloke.

Legally we have integration, social acceptance and diversity... but that doesn't mean... everybody is down with it.

Porcupine Tree is a band, and it's not up to me where the band goes - it's between the manager, our agent, and the band as a whole.

I've never written a 'Revolver' or a 'Pet Sounds.'

With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.

I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

It's very important in international cricket to be able to hold a bat, not just hold up an end, but have the ability to score runs.

Hypnosis is just suggestibility; you see it in certain people.

Everyone loves a love story, and everyone wants to know who's getting on with who, it's what makes the world go round.

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

No family is sane, is it?

The Marxist theory of ideology is extremely contentious, not least because it is tied to socio-economic hypotheses that are no longer believable.

I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.

Oh yes, I love gadgets.

There's no pressure on me to be a particular weight. But I loathe being renowned as a 'larger' model. It makes me cringe.