Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors - Page 17

I like any European city where you can sit outside, have a beer and watch the world go by.

To stay at the elite end of professional sport you need to show an awful lot of dedication.

I've always loved being active, and I used to do sports - basketball, soccer, volleyball - growing up.

I don't know what I'm going to end up doing, but its definitely in the right direction for freedom and truth.

I don't really understand Darren Lehmann coming out and saying the South African crowd has been out of order. Any England player, even media, who have toured Australia can laugh at those comments because some of the things we hear on the pitch from Australian supporters, known as 'banter,' I know is worse than in South Africa.

Indeed, 'Sex and the City' highlighted the importance of female friendships, and showed the world that it was hip to be single.

Talent in cooking can be described as skill, creativity, your instincts, how do you approach a problem.

I suffer really badly with insomnia.

Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

There are so many egos in this game - maybe we all need to come down a notch.

Writing is investigation.

I'm just the biggest Kanye fan. I think he's a genius.

If you are the sort of character who likes to feel you are in a battle, then make sure you do that.

I was a child actor in 'Deliverance,' but not the banjo player. It was my dad's big movie as a director, and at the very end there's a scene where Jon Voight comes home to his wife. I played his young son.

I have one secret tattoo. 'True Romance' is my favourite film of all time and in the film the two lovers get matching tattoos of a cherub holding a heart with a banner in it. They obviously get each other's name in it, but mine is empty and will stay empty.

The fact that on the day I came back to City we stayed in the UEFA Cup through a last-minute own goal against Midtjylland and then won a dramatic penalty shoot-out made me smile.

I was still with Sunderland at the time of my first cap in 2010, and I remember getting the text to let me know that I was going to be called up to the squad - it was a Friday night, and I was in a hotel in London because we were playing Chelsea the next day.

Marriage can feel like putting a burden on each other and sometimes kids go with that, too.

I think Marilyn Manson has a better take on America than Michael Moore and I don't think he's appreciated for his intellect.

Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can't do that. It's not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end.

I loathe people who are disingenuous or inauthentic.

Whatever your meals are, they must fill you up, do not skip breakfast or lunch because you're going to get hungry and then you're going to be reaching for snacks that are sugary, salty, fatty, that won't fill you up, and then you'll be reaching for them again.

If anybody has walked down the road and someone says turn left and you take a right that's a form of dyslexia. If you write a number down backwards or you get the numbers mixed up a little bit occasionally, that's a form of dyslexia.

My parents, Arthur and Olwen, were honest, working-class people who raised my brother Arthur, sister June, and me with the values of that era - patriotism, stoicism, honesty, concern for your neighbours, and judging a man by what he did rather than what he had.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Everyone's more vulnerable than they seem, and I think men are more vulnerable. Once you get close to a man, the whole thing's a facade anyway. I think manhood is fragile.

You get the best out of the girls when they're enjoying themselves, when they've got a smile on their face - they're working hard on the training pitch, but they're allowed to relax off it as well.

The Ballon d'Or presentation will be the first time I've ever worn black tie!

If you want to eat my fish, you have to come to Padstow. It's like the Med - people want local fish in a local restaurant. I think it tastes better in Cornwall.

Whether you win or lose, you need to stay on a level platform.

Gay people are made and not born.

It's like any other part of your body - your mental health gets sick, and it needs treatment.

My mum, Olwen, was a bright and talkative woman who loved a gossip and a story and was given slightly to malapropisms. And she was Welsh, so, of course, she sang.

Whoever said having children makes a comedian safer and less dark is an idiot. Having a baby has filled my whole life with fear, and totally destroyed all illusion that the world is safe or fair.

I would certainly not support Trump in any way shape or form, but I want to have sympathy.

Perhaps I am influenced by philosophies like the one at Chelsea which was 'If it isn't broken, change it' which saw us win three league titles in five years playing three different formations and tactical strategies so that the opposition could never keep up with our evolution at the time.

Obviously, everyone goes in the gym and does the biceps bells and the bench press, but when you're injured, you work on your core, your pelvic floor, your groins, on glutes, and muscles you wouldn't really know about. It does make you a stronger player all round in terms of injury prevention.

I'm not a comedian, but I do make people laugh. I'm good at it.

No matter how bad your hotel is, take a deep breath, because if you can get through a night, it won't seem quite so bad the following morning.

I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

Embryology reveals surprising similarities between early embryos of seemingly quite different animals. And it also shows that some structures that may look very different later on have fundamental similarities in the way they form.

Knowledge is power.

I get mistaken for Jesy Nelson from Little Mix all the time.

I think I am quite a morning person naturally, I think it may be breakfast radio that has made me be like that.

The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and... that's not good.

I think women should inspire. It is our duty to inspire young girls to play a sport, whether it's just for enjoyment and keeping fit or to actually go on and try and make a career out of it.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants. We want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

I don't believe in 'happy ever after' at all as a concept.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

People who drop litter really stress me out. I have been known to chase after people and say, 'Sorry, but you've forgotten something,' and then hand it back to them.

Probably because the first two albums were so successful, we got a little bit smug.

I remember the first scene I shot on 'The Blind Side.' I was with Sandra Bullock, and I kept trying to stop myself thinking, 'Oh my God, I can't believe I'm in a movie with her.'

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Our lives are largely made up of a series of mundane moments, but those little moments are often the finesse that shapes our entire existence; it's not necessarily the big, dramatic events, although they do, too, of course.

Even when I do miss easy balls I feel I can come back.

My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it's okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.

I think life is sweeter shared; and if anything were to happen to my partner, I would find it really hard without her because she's the perfect person for my life.