Top 930 Quotes & Sayings by Welsh Authors - Page 11

I was born in London but brought up in Wales from the age of two.

There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.

At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future.

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

When you're eating salad and quinoa while training, all you want is a burger. In the cycling season, when I'm doing 30-odd hours of exercise a week, I'm dreaming of burgers and curries that I'll have at the end of the season.

It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.

Never argue; repeat your assertion.

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

Players' moods change on a daily basis, so it depends how you find your players, and up to you to get the best out of them.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

There are a lot of similarities between Jonathan Higgins and Juliet Higgins: they're both British, they both come from military backgrounds, and they're both control freaks.

I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.

We all get knocked down in life, the big thing is getting back up.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

I listen to a lot of reggae.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.

Even Angus says that Malcolm is a better guitarist than he is. He makes the drummer's job so easy, he's a metronome.

I think perhaps I'm a bit of an idealist.

I definitely people-watch. I often see photos of myself with my children: I'm always in the background with my mouth wide open, looking somewhere else.

I have read loads of books on Napoleon. For him to come from nothing and then lead his country, that fascinated me. It doesn't matter what you think of him. He did it.

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

Nobody puts Roach in the corner.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.

People have got a preconceived idea of what I look like, what I perform and what my shows are all about. I can understand that, because all they can refer to is 'Top Of The Pops.' But those who come to my shows know better.

I grew up in Aberdare and some of the nicest beaches close by were at Tenby and Saundersfoot.

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.

One thing I learnt was that you don't have to spend all day shooting: you can get it done in half an hour if you're that talented as a cameraman.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

If political leaders want respect, they will begin by enforcing the global rule of law.

I've always been a bit of a drama queen. I was into make-believe and dressing up.

I can understand failure: I've failed loads of times in my life; it's not a problem. I've never feared it, because it's a part of life.

Boxing was my destiny.

Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.

We moved to America when I was young, but we were always very Welsh in our home. The humor, food, traditions. Very Welsh.

I love to travel, playing drums, and being on the road as not many people can say that.

History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

Ever since I was a boy, I have wanted to be a professional footballer and to captain my country one day.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

I have been relegated as a player, and I have suffered the feeling of failure. It is awful, and when you are part of an international outfit that gets so close, and you don't do it, it is not a good feeling. I don't want that again. I want to be part of a team that does something no one else has done.

Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.

There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.

It's this idea that success changes you as a person... I've never seen my career that way.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.

I like jumping around perspective. It keeps things alive and makes you realize that your personal perspective on anything is very misleading and it's real hard to get a real sense of anything.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

I believe that we can 'sense' the future. We just haven't yet established the mechanism allowing it to happen.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.