Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors - Page 5

When you win or lose, no-one dies: you win, or you lose.

That's what you want to do as a manager, finish the game, get in your bath and think about the kids going home, the young kids going home.

SM:TV' is where we learned our trade. It was young, we could try out new sketches every week. When we got better ratings than our BBC rival, 'Live And Kicking,' it was amazing.

There has been a tendency only to deal with a certain social class when it comes to stories more than 100 years ago.

I don't know anything about politics, so I don't do political material.

It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

Do not be fooled, your diet needs a daily dose of all kinds of fats if you want to be healthy.

I feel like I'm the chosen one, but I chose myself.

Between 2007 and 2016, I had a large white rabbit called WillyFred. I was happiest pressing my ear to his fur and hearing his heart beat.

Remember that all your favourite meals can be made healthier, because the simple fact is, you can never go wrong with protein and veg!

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

I'm such a crier.

For a sore throat I take arnica, just a tiny pill dissolved under my tongue. And because your throat is like a muscle, I keep mine warm drinking herbal teas, usually camomile.

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

I'm very aware that you lead a very peculiar existence as a professional footballer, being flown everywhere first-class and never having to queue up for anything. Of course, that's attractive, but if you're not careful, you end up living in a world where nothing is really real.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Snooker's never going to be that. It's never going to be a worldwide game like tennis and golf. It's never going to happen.

I think there is something about the Internet which gives people almost an opportunity to role play and to create a facade, an image. I see that as quite a dangerous development because I think what we call social networking, Twitter, Facebook, etc., is actually quite antisocial.

If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.

I say that I'm genetically gifted. In a weight-governed sport, I don't put weight on because of my Polish 'heritage, it's genetic. Even when I am not in training, I don't put on weight. When I start training, I don't need to take a lot of weight off.

When you've only got two days between games the recovery process is key.

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.

Freedom of speech is freedom above all for those whose views you dislike most.

I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.

I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.

North of England, you're brought up on fish and chips. Friday or Saturdays every week, it was a treat.

I don't mind a bit of cricket, but it has to be something massive like the Ashes.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

It's in the DNA of Liverpool Football Club to win trophies.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

Part of the game is moving on. And you do.

I watched 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' about 90 times and knew every word.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

We want to be the best in Europe.

If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score runs, and I've always managed to turn it around.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

I had no sympathy with my mum and dad.

I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that.

What greater thing can you do than walk on the moon?

We have all come to agree the modern players cannot be one-trick ponies, and we are especially critical of those who do not consistently produce in the biggest games.

I think 'Friends' is brilliant and it was massively underrated in this country for a very British reason, which is the assumption that because the cast is beautiful, it must be vacuous. Whereas in fact, it's brilliantly, brilliantly written.

I left Starbucks in 2015. When I was younger, I remember looking at Justin Bieber and wishing I had all these fans, but you know what? Everyone has their path, everyone's path is different, and this is where mine's going. I just didn't want to work at Starbucks. I wanted to be writing music all the time.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Oh, I still like dresses. I've still got plenty of them. It's just that I don't put them on specially for photo-shoots anymore. It's just part of my everyday life.

Being very dyslexic I couldn't even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.

It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once.

The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

My Mum was the main reason why I became a chef. She influenced all of my family to feel free in the kitchen - it was the centre of our home and I have wonderful memories of helping Mum cook and experiencing the love and patience that went into the food.

We don't get any hate mail.

The first song I wrote was when I was 11. It was called 'Life Is a Path Worth Taking.'

When you're happy and at one with yourself and have come to peace with who you are, that radiates.

I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide, comfort, expand and reawaken us.

It was nice to have success in the SheBelieves Cup, but that just brings more pressure.