Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors - Page 15

I guess I love the small things in life.

Never give up. It's never over until it's over.

I feel like listening to sad songs are a way of narrating your life and confirming your identity.

The people who are most susceptible to hypnosis - the rugger bugger types - were also the ones who intimidated me most at school, so on an unconscious level I suppose I'm turning the tables on them.

I've known Stuart Broad since he was a child, living up the road from me.

The thing about a band is, it's not so much how good the musicians are - it's the blend of personalities and characters. It's the human chemistry that makes up a good team.

Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a whole string of chance events - some happening in the environments our ancestors inhabited, and some inside their own bodies, including random mutations in their DNA.

Old Trafford - as a cricket ground, I love playing there. It's a second home for me; I've been going there since I was young. It just feels right there.

Sometimes it's been difficult to stay positive, especially after the injuries that I've had, which have been frustrating.

She ain't my queen. My grandmother is my queen, and my auntie, my cousin, my daughters... the Queen's never done anything for me.

With adoption, there is a whole range of experiences, and a lot of it goes under the radar. There is too much icky stuff about it - all this stuff about people reunited, a sickly sentimentality about blood lines. For me, at least, life is much more ambiguous than that.

I have a short, home-made armguard because I don't like the regular ones. I'd wear that on a lively pitch. I don't use a chest guard because I find it too restrictive.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

I never had the money to start a pension - I didn't start to make any real money until I was 58 - and now it's not worth much.

I want success for so many people. I couldn't give a crap about myself.

When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.

Facebook is the first class of social networking. If MySpace is Camden Lock then Facebook is Harvey Nichols.

I have experienced ageism and sexism. In my 20s, I was told by a camera lighting man I needed plastic surgery. In my 30s I was constantly told I needed to lose weight.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

Some people have a God because they need faith, and that's fair enough.

You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm all right. If you're a nice person, it definitely helps.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been interested in the poetry of melancholy, if you like.

I spent some time with Bob Marley and I have to say that was like walking with a god on earth.

Forgiving yourself will help with giving yourself strength.

A dish should have flavor, texture, appearance and smell, but I'm doing it differently. We take Chinese food, play with your sentiments, memories of it, and then take you to the border; you won't fall over the edge, but you get excitement.

I spent a lot of time in Barbados as a child and I still really enjoy going back there and enjoying the island. Going to Barbados brings back great memories of family holidays.

Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

There's something rhythmic about running, so it's not surprising that I love it. I'm a bass player, after all.

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

If you are enjoying yourself its infectious.

I am blessed to have been able to travel the world doing what I do.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn't understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you'd think, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.

While researching my ancestry I have unearthed many skeletons. It would seem that I come from a long line of ne'er-do-wells, especially on my mother's side.

I love extended solos. I used to like them in the old days a lot, because it used to give me time to go to the pub for a drink.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The aim every season is to challenge for the top four and try to win a trophy.

I went to Cyprus with a friend and her family when we were about 16. She was riding on the back of a scooter we'd hired when we got surrounded by local boys on their scooters down a dark country lane. They tried to get us to pull over.

At yoga you get some sense of spiritual space so that people don't intrude. You can go there and close your eyes and no one will talk to you. People are too worried about not fainting to bother with some bloke who was on the telly.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

I never used to watch MLS before so I had negative views. I thought it wasn't a good standard. When I got here I was very shocked. It's hard and it's a good level, and they look after you here. I love it.

Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

Once everyone gets a taste of one trophy, it could set off an effect. People will get the hunger, and just want more and more.

I truly believe being a midwife is the greatest job for a feminist. It's women helping women, believing in them at a time when they're thinking, 'Am I ever going to get through this?'

If Sinatra had packed in his style because there were a load of counterfeit Sinatras about, he would have stopped singing in 1956 or whatever.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

I don't want to do a rabidly left-wing show. I think it's much more interesting to turn the knife on yourself.

My glasses say a lot about me because I think me in a pair of sunglasses is an image that a lot of people would recognise.

A man - hairy or not - should still spend time on personal hygiene.

Ah, 'Kismet,' or Carry On Camel, as we called it. I thought the show was shocking. It was the worst designed production ever but it's got a fantastic score. It's not an awfully good book though. You really have to work hard to eke out any laughs from that script.

At United, my United, we had been honed into a ruthless team who played great football but, ultimately, were there to win football matches and league titles. At Newcastle, they could certainly play on their day, and the crowd was formidable, but there was a weakness - a vulnerability that you could seek out.

I'm trying to create a better pathway for the next generation.

I wish I knew in terms of more educated in food when I was younger. Because the importance of it not just in sport but in life too has helped me and I think it'll continue.