Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors - Page 20

Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.

Well, it's about getting points. And there are different ways of getting points. Whether you're offensively good, capable of scoring enough goals to win enough games, or resilient enough not to lose too many.

On the red carpet, one tip is to suck in your cheekbones - apparently it looks better on camera. I don't know, though; I think a nice smile is best.

A large part of me becoming a performer was a make-or-break way of getting over that stutter. I sometimes wonder if, subliminally, that was part of the reason I got into the business, and the more I became a performer and grew in confidence, the less pronounced the stutter became.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

I have visited nearly 60 countries and lived in the U.S.S.R., Russia, and the U.S.A., and I have never experienced anything as good as what we have. Only in the Anglosphere countries - the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - is there anything comparable. I am amazed at how relaxed we are about giving this away.

Older people like to dress older. I dress in more flamboyant, stylish.

I always go for simplicity.

Resilience can go an awful long way.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

I love reading interviews that we've done and seeing how we come across, and thinking, 'Mmm, maybe we shouldn't say that again.'

In the end, success in a shoot-out is being able to perform a particular skill under pressure.

For me cooking is a pleasure, it's a relaxing thing.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

I didn't look like Rihanna. I was a bit chubby. I had puppy fat. I had a moustache. I didn't want to have lips; I didn't want a bum. I grew out of it, but I feel like everyone went through that phase of wanting to be skinny.

The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.

When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns.

You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Running in heels can be treacherous, and don't get me started on fake eyelashes!

As I can testify, living in a foreign country takes you way out of your comfort zone. It's the little things, like ordering food in a different language, buying petrol or learning to drive on the other side of the road, but they all add up to making you a more rounded, educated person.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

I did part-time jobs until my apprenticeship as a milling machinist at Vauxhall when I was 16. I got £15 a week and I used to give my mum a fiver of that.

I am as I am, and I ain't gonna apologise for it.

A car isn't a classic just because it's old. To be a classic, a car has to tell us something of its time.

I love a jar of cockles. I love anything in vinegar - beetroot, little silverskin onions, cornichons - I'm forever grazing on stuff like that, fingers in a jar.

Martin Skrtel is good at rattling the opposing centre-forward.

I love Holly Willoughby on 'This Morning.'

You should never undermine friendship and loyalty.

A lobster roll and a few glasses of fizz and I'm happy.

I didn't really want to write about music very much in 'High Fidelity.' I wanted to write about the relationship stuff, and the music stuff is kind of a bit of fun on top and something to frame it with.

I think when I left WWE, Vince blocked my phone number so he never wants me calling him again.

I receive kindness every day. I love to smile when I'm out and about, and if someone smiles back, which happens about half the time, I think that's an act of kindness every couple of minutes in my day.

The strange thing about people considering me upbeat is that I'm really not.

When I was 9, I was into T. Rex, Gary Glitter, and Alice Cooper. I knew The Beatles because my nan introduced me to them, but T. Rex was the first band I got into myself. I got 'Metal Guru' a few months after hearing 'Children of the Revolution' in Pwllheli in North Wales at a market.

As a player, you want to win everything as much as you can. If you're a footballer, you're a winner. When you then step up to the first team and you win something with them, that feeling is multiplied massively because you're at the top of the club and now you're winning so you want it more and more.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

If you said, 'I'm giving up smoking,' people would put on a parade. If you said, 'I'm going to eat more healthily,' people would say, 'Good for you.' If it's drinking, the first reaction is, 'That's so boring. You're going to be so boring.'

When you're relaxed, you are more decisive.

Anyone out there considering doing a Christmas wedding, definitely do it!

People use the 'love' word too early. When you've got that trust thing locked down, when you've lived together, and you know each other's good and bad qualities inside out, at that moment, you know if you truly love someone.

Talent, it can become a trap.

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

Longevity trumps everything.

If you have enough ambition, you can create talent!

Anybody is a beach body is what I love to say.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Long hair doesn't look good on me because my hair is fine.

Jonathan Agnew is a good person to learn off because he's a brilliant broadcaster and the calmness and clarity with which he does things is a real skill.

When one door closes, another window opens.

Be yourself. If you're not yourself, who are you? But take advice; listen to people. If you're not listening, you're lost. You're a sheep among wolves.

After my second No. 1, my record company, Warner Brothers, gave me a beautiful present - quite unique at the time - one of the very first Sony stereos which had speaker and radio included so I could record the radio and build up cassette tapes of music, gospel singing, adverts, evangelists.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

We may think we live in a digital age. But there are some things technology will never replace.

People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

Weight gain is good because it makes your dresses tight. This is not necessarily classy or flattering, but it means you don't have to iron anything.

When you're an actor, wealth is about choice.

I don't want to be a burden to anyone.