Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors - Page 14

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

I want to continue to improve season after season, which I think I've done.

I hate dinner parties, you know, can't stand them. Friends don't bother inviting me any more, because they know I won't come. I could never think of anything to say between courses - it's a confidence thing, I suppose.

Good music is timeless, and if you create with that honesty, it will last.

My long-term dream is to have self-education in schools for mental, physical, and emotional health because we need to learn how to speak to ourselves in a loving way and to each other.

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide.

I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh, only for Scottish and Irish. It's understandable. The Scots effectively created the face of the modern world: the railways, the bridges, the tunnels.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

I made a conscious decision to stop watching 'Big Brother.' I was an avid fan, but I felt it was time to move on.

I want to help others smile and be kind as often as possible.

The most important thing is that you can make tough decisions, discipline people when you need to, but also create a spirit to get the ultimate thing you're aiming for, which is winning enough games.

I did work incredibly hard but I think there's a certain element of luck.

I used to be really fussy, I just used to eat chicken or steak. I didn't really eat fish, but I eat a lot of it now.

My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.

There's criticism, and there's calling someone a fridge.

I love to watch birds and wildlife.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

I'm in a relationship with myself. I think a lot of young girls should do that.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it.

Who needs a candle snuffer? You have air to blow out a candle. I don't need a snuffer to put it out.

We will always have our critics because we are Manchester United. It has been like that since I have been here.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

If you want to wear something and you feel confident, you are going to rock it. That's what I love about fashion: it's your choice and your chance to express yourself.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

There is one nickname that my mate wants me to have... it's The Ace. I'm happy for a campaign for people to start calling me that!

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

I might be a natural show-off but being your best mate's best man is a different kettle of fish.

I went to what can only be described as a slum school in Salford - rough and full of trainee punks - but I was very lucky in that I had one inspiring teacher, John Malone, who gave the whole class an interest in romantic poetry.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

I hate the idea of parenting being this false perfect picture. It's challenging and difficult at times. I like the fact I can be honest about that and people seem to respect that.

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

I was born and raised in Southall; we had two houses which we made into one big one because there were 12 of us living there: me and my bro, my parents, my grandparents, and my dad's brother's family.

Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.

I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.

Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical.

I've tried to have a regular haircut, but it just pops back up again, so this is the way it's going to be.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I'm not much of a reader; I'm more of a laptop person. I would never consider travelling without it.

I've traveled a fair amount around the country and visited many states. It's amazing that Oregon is so different from Idaho; even though Portland isn't that far from Boise, it's a completely different city. Colorado is very different from Oregon. From a European perspective, I've always found that fascinating about America.

We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates international headlines, but children in Niger suffering from drought and children in Britain suffering from leukaemia go unnoticed.

Of course, I could try IVF. But having watched my friend TV presenter Clare Nasir go through it, I know how tough the journey is. Emotional fool I may be, but even I can see that's too selfish a course of action to impose on my family.

I really like walking through Brompton Cemetery. It's really peaceful.

Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

We go out and have a drink occasionally. We're quite happy to go for a nice meal and go the theatre or something.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

A man can be as sexy as he wants to be.

I was nearly in Busted.

I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal.

It was amazing to work with a cast like Terence Howard and Colin Farrell.

If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'