Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors - Page 2

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.

South-east Asian salads are a great balance of salty, sweet-sour and spicy. Its important to have both pork and seafood, but you can vary the seafood from prawns and squid to crab meat or even small pieces of firm fish such as monkfish, John Dory or gurnard.

I know how to dress my figure, so I stay looking good by wearing the right clothes.

I sleep pretty well - seven or eight hours a night.

I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.

I know Toby Jones very well, we've done yoga together in the past and get on very well. He's a fantastic actor, but also extremely good company, very witty, and smart.

Someone once told me that I was 12 inside. The only thing 12-year-olds crave is more Lego. Lego is fun; it's therapeutic. It's a beautiful sensation when you click the pieces together.

I went through a divorce during the 'Seeds of Love' album.

I don't know if there are many misconceptions. One is that my birthday is on Valentine's Day. It's on 7 June.

Fame is great when everything in your life is going well. But when it goes wrong, when you're having to jump on a bus, because you can't afford to pay for a taxi, and you catch people looking at you. It might sound strange, but you feel ashamed. And that's hard to deal with.

The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things.

St James' Park was always, in the course of my career, a great place to play football, for the wildness of the crowd and the no-holds-barred football that both my team, Manchester United, and Newcastle would play.

When I was a player the mentality was black people would make good players but weren't captain material or managerial material. That stereotyping existed.

To be fair, life is too short. There is no point holding grudges or anything like that.

It's very hard to talk about Palestine to Jewish people - they see me as a betrayer.

I'm prepared to try to talk to a very beautiful girl. I learned a fantastic secret, which is that the most beautiful woman in the room is not being spoken to because she's too intimidating. They're not looking for somebody beautiful; they're looking for somebody to amuse them.

We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment.

There is nothing better than a proper breakfast.

Life is about unforgettable and transcendent moments, isn't it? The point of music is to get the moment.

People think I am a workaholic but I just love business.

The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.

I'm representing the curvy girls and that's great.

My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories.

The ups and downs are part of what has made you.

The problem with being human is that there's far too much responsibility, too much pressure and too many expectations placed on you to achieve.

I am thankful for everyone at the club that helped me, the fans, the coaches that I have had, the staff that have helped with injuries, I am really grateful to everyone at Everton. It was like a family to me.

Geese always support each other. When a goose gets injured two birds always accompany it down to the ground. Just as geese do, we must support each other.

None of my friends are big posters - we're old school. We text, phone and meet up and have a beer or have a curry.

Maths is like a ladder - if you miss the first few rungs, you can't jump up, so start with the basics.

You'll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart: Mondays, Smiths, New Order, Roses, Oasis.

Sometimes big boxing matches should take place on the cobbles. That's really where Mikkel Kessler and me ought to have sorted it out.

I can smell a liar like a fart in a lift!

Growing up, I wasn't a big guy; I struggled to hold on to the ball.

If you look round the world, most teams want guys who can bowl up at 90 mph because they can make things happen when it isn't doing much.

Training with world-class players week in, week out has only made me a better player and I'm thankful for that.

If you want bigger arms, target the triceps, not the biceps.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

A few things make a person stylish: honesty, imagination with a sprinkling of humour. I still keep an eye on trends, but I don't follow them any more.

I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

We're mature women, we want to talk about naughty things.

For every moment of concentration there is an equal moment of relaxation.

If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.

My parenting skills came from two decades of being in the field helping families and having the opportunity to work with hundreds of families of all different ages.

I've always had a naughty streak.

Life is short, so go for things you enjoy.

Life is a mirror and you get back what you give out.

Dancing should be as much a part of our daily routine as brushing our teeth.

Working class people vote Tory because they think it makes them look a bit posh.

You can't buy class.

The arrival of Arsene Wenger in 1996 certainly heralded a change in English football. He was very successful very quickly, and suddenly, all the talk was about his revolutionary new training methods.

I love any excuse to dress up; my wardrobe's a bit like a fancy dress box.

Thinking back to how it fell apart for Mourinho at Chelsea, I do have some sympathy for him. At most clubs it is the manager who determines the long-term stability of the players but at Chelsea it seems very much the other way round.

My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.

No matter how much cricket you have played you are always learning.

It's amazing how a simple brief phone call can pick up the spirits of the most dejected hamster, the most stressed goldfish and the most neurotic cat.

Some things are best left to memories.

Comedy is a difficult thing for a critic, as, unlike all other art-forms, it has an inbuilt success-o-meter: laughter. Therefore, there's no real need for critics.