Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors - Page 6

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

If you want to gamble, so be it, but when it gets to the stage where gambling is the only thing you are thinking of and it is affecting your life, that's when you need to put a hold on it.

I want to be the best professional and the greatest role model I can be.

That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are smallthings but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic.

I'm a positive person who likes to have fun and get the best out of every day.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

I like being orange and having eyelashes that go up to my forehead.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

I like Avenged Sevenfold and Five Finger Death Punch, with whom I did a single.

Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

Raw parsley makes me gag. It's the same for my mum and my sister. Which is funny because apparently parsley was used to suffocate witches, back in the day.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

The brain is muscle. If you don't exercise it, it will get slow.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Well I actually think. I think it's a dinosaur... Have you ever seen the photos of Loch Ness? If you haven't by the way Google it. They look like diplodocus but in the water. These sightings have been going on for thousands of years and the first written account of Nessie was 1500 years ago.

My father always worked away, and died when I was 17, but I hated him by that point. It hit me later in life, but back then I was teenage and angry.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Being English, we're polite and reserved, we don't express our opinions; we're very private people.

I Iove a dancer who is willing to take risks with their body and go that extra mile to move the audience.

Weddings happen once. That's the point. They're a bluster of confetti and hope all wrapped up in sticky wedding cake and four-year-old girls in big dresses with massive bows.

For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.

I would almost certainly vote for Trump if I was American.

I think there are bigger problems in the world than Jeremy Clarkson.

The first meaningful friendship moment we had was when Ant sent me a Fred Flintstone Christmas card and it said, 'To Dec from Ant, have a yabba dabba do Christmas.'

I think being nice is more important than being clever.

No matter how many people say you can't do something, use that as inspiration to prove them wrong.

Freedom of speech wasn't won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

I cleanse, tone and moisturize, and always take off my make-up before I go to bed.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

From the age of six I used to watch every England team and when I was messing around in the backyard I would pretend to be whoever was scoring runs at the time, whether they were a right or left-hander. I just wanted to be them and do that.

Every single human being can achieve a perfect vibrational balance between their positive and negative energy.

Big games are usually about doing the simple things well - not trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

I always look for contradiction in a character.

I propose that matchmaking should be approached like a corporate business venture. It can be risky, but I have discovered that the potential profits from acquisitions and mergers cannot be underestimated.

I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.

Christmas traditions are important in my family. Being half English and half Polish-Lithuanian, we have two separate celebrations.

Fatherhood has changed me completely.

I spend a fair amount of time chatting to black cab drivers in London.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

In my mind, if anyone can save the world from destroying itself, it will be the creative minds: the thinkers, the artists and the avant-garde trailblazers that will ultimately bring down the whole matrix of untruth and set mankind on a lesser destructive and more spiritual path.

Twenty-two years I've been doing this comedy lark, so it's been like a meteoric rise to fame... if the meteor was being dragged by an arthritic donkey across a ploughed field, in northern Poland.

When the game is played by such a high percentage of black and ethnic minority players and we're looking at the percentage of managers and coaches, at the top level it is minimal.

No sport is more geared to the warrior's code of honour, pride and respect. That's why I love boxing. It's mano a mano. One against one. It's driven by fear and your need to conquer it.

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

Food is important in working out a character. How she eats is a window into her temperament. If I think she likes her food, I'll put on a few pounds, or lose a few if she lives on her nerves.

Hendry's fine. I've got a lot of respect for him.

A song isn't finished until it's played live, and then it moves on.

Robben is truly world class, proving himself at the highest level in England, Spain, Germany and on the international stage.

My friends would say I'm not the person to go to for tea, a cuddle and sympathy, because I can't deliver. But if you want something sorted out and need a champion who will stand by your side, that is me.

I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.

I'm not great at taking compliments because I always find the thing I could do better.

It's not enough just to win a cup.

In 1995, I discovered I had two brain tumours. The process of having them removed went on for about three years. It was a long and drawn-out time, wondering whether or not I was going to die.

I want to age the way that life makes you age, because there's beauty in autumn and winter and I think people forget that.