Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors - Page 8

I'm not a presenter - I'm a star.

Driving a car is no longer about zooming down clear lanes, the joy and freedom of the road flowing through your hair like a fine westerly breeze. It's about solid traffic, petrol fumes, spy cameras, eco-guilt, and simultaneous social media.

Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.

It's not that hard to make good food.

Everyone has a goldfish when they're little.

I had a pretty well-adjusted style of parenting. I think my parents were very young, very open. I think I learned many things from them: etiquette and grace, compassion and charity. And who I am today is due to a lot of attributes of my parents.

One thing I don't like is those three-star kitchens where they force the cooks to do exactly the same thing again and again. There has to be an element of chance in cookery.

We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt since childhood that we don't even consciously realise are going on.

To be honest, I've made a lot mistakes and I quite like making them because you learn from them.

I am proud to be a Next 20 ambassador for Kick It Out and take this role very seriously for an organisation that does such good work.

I had tuberculosis in my mid-20s. I didn't have much work, was living in a damp London basement in a sleeping bag, and ate only every other day. I looked rough and felt very run down.

Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it's me.

Skimmed milk was what they used to give to prisoners and workhouse inmates to go with their porridge and gruel. It's a punishment, not a drink.

I eat a lot of cereal and toast.

You can have talent, but unless you're in the right place at the right time, then it isn't going to happen for you.

The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

Paul Nixon taught me to break a run chase down into little targets. I suppose I stole his cues and took them into my own game.

I have got the most incredible fan base who pick me up and we do it for them. This is why we do what we do. They are our fans and they are the best.

The food of my childhood was revolting because I was a child of rationing. However, I still managed to be a very plump child and, indeed, as a teenager, positively fat. In my early twenties I lost three stone in one summer using the only diet that works: the pure protein diet. I kept to it until I was about 50.

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

Nobody walks over me, ever, and no-one will walk over me, ever.

I see social media mainly just talked about as if it has just changed us technologically and in terms of data. I think it has changed absolutely everything. It has changed truth, it has changed culture. It has certainly changed the way that we relate to each other and in a very short amount of time.

My private life, my relationships are much, much more important than my career.

In my eyes, baking and pastry-making is like a science - all the measuring of quantities and temperatures.

I like everything to be natural... believable.

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

Being 40 and pregnant with my third child, it's no surprise that the cellulite on my legs got out of control.

There's only a certain amount of times you can tell somebody what they should or shouldn't be doing. If they don't want to take it on board there's little you can do.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

I don't think 'Citizen Kane' stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn't know that?

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an explorer. I wanted to go out into deep, dark jungle somewhere and find places in the world that hadn't been discovered. But then I discovered two things. One, that most of the world had already been visited and two, that would involve encountering entirely too many, very large spiders.

I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

We play Snooker Legends exhibitions and there is never a spare ticket.

A guy threw a stone at my head when I was eight. I told my nan, and she said, 'Get a bigger stone.' That's what I got programmed into me. And sometimes I find it a struggle to get it out of me.

Everything is not beautiful at the ballet. It's tough.

Even if you aren't sure of yourself, pretend that you are... most people prevaricate.

When I first came to Hollywood to make 'Mortal Kombat' back in the day, there was this rule that female-led action movies don't work and American studios didn't want to make them.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I met my partner, actor David Elliot, when we were both in the play 'La Ronde' by Arthur Schnitzler.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

I like good food, and I'll eat until I'm full.

What my wife and I love so much about reading with our children is that we are given a better understanding of them, as we see what they connect with.

Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Normally I've been burning lots of calories by dancing, going to shows and generally being active. But since we went into the first lockdown I've mainly sat on the sofa.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

'Pompeii' will be PG-13. I think it has to have a level of violence and death in it because you've got a volcano exploding. But it will be another PG-13 movie.

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

Imperfection is fine.

The best revenge is success.

It's very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you have to work from your instinct and feeling and take those risks and be fearless. When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things forward.

It feels like you are in your own little bubble when you film 'Bake Off.' There is no noise, the outside world doesn't exist when we are filming. It's us, the tent and the bakers.

Before the government decides to raise the minimum wage, it must consider the effects of the tax and benefits merry-go-round that affects the low-paid.

I grew up in Wicklow, near Roundwood. It's a beautiful place on the east coast. That's where I started riding bikes.

In Britain, when the working class are summoned for fiction, it's 'isn't it a shame, isn't it a pity, isn't it awful, the terribly poor things... ' whereas from within, it's nothing like that. It's fantastic, it's glamorous, it's terrible and good the same as it is for everybody.

It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts.