Top 930 Quotes & Sayings by Welsh Authors - Page 12

We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability.

The worst position you are in is when you are on the medical bed, and you can't get out on that training pitch.

For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.

It's good for your body to have a break. Even when you're training, you have to have a cheat day every week. The body reacts better to training if you give it intervals of not training, or you relax the diet.

I've said it once: I would love to someday play in La Liga at one of the greats. I see their league each week. It suits my style.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.

The dressing room is not the place where you show emotion.

There are four of us, and we were all born in different cities because my dad worked all around the place. We settled in Birmingham, so I spent most of my time growing up there. We were all given very Welsh names - Geraint, Owen, Rhiannon and Gwilym. My mum's called Cainwen, and my dad is somewhat disappointingly called Tom.

I think there's always pressure at Arsenal to win trophies - it's nothing new - and to us, as players, we know what we are capable of doing.

As long as I love Beauty I am young.

I love vintage, but it's so expensive now.

Boxing definitely has a part to play in taking away unwanted aggression.

When you lose a game you still get as disappointed, 24 years on. Losing a game of football, even when you have played well, kills you.

When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that was quite frightening. I was close to the edge, and there was a helicopter hovering about, creating a lot of wind, and I was nervous I was going to fall off.

It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

At 14, 15, everyone at school stopped talking to me, and I went completely into my shell. Basically, I'd be hiding. I had no friends. I hated it.

I love Wales, and Cardiff is great, but if I could just have the weather we have in California, it would be perfect.

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.

I miss the BBC when I'm away. I'm away so much that it's a pleasure just walking back through the door and sitting on the sofa to watch some rubbish TV.

You can't just get in a boat with someone and be great straight away. It takes a lot of time to get used to each other. You need to learn how the other person reacts to certain situations.

That's what makes the Premier League the best in the world: the competitiveness and the ability each team possesses can hurt you on their day.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

Yeah, I love Ewan McGregor, I think he's phenomenal.

Sometimes the most excruciating experiences in rehearsals and performances yield the most beautiful work.

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

The audience just give you a kick - you know, the adrenaline.

I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.

I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

We had a wind-up gramophone long before I came along, and it moved on to a Dansette record player. That's how I heard the records as I grew up.

I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of drafts. My big thing is I don't re-read. When I write, I never re-read back. I'll send it, because if I re-read back, it will cripple me.

I'd like to be very wise.

I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

I'm curvy and wholesome.

All we're in control of is what we do day to day on set and how we prepare to do our job each day.

I think casting is everything. You get a great cast and - certainly, as happens in 'The Hour' - so many of those performances on the page were transformed by those actors who took those parts and made it into something completely different.

Luckily, I am not at all claustrophobic.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

I'm a proud Welshman.

I had been quite judicious about the scripts I was reading, but nothing was really taking my fancy until I pulled this script out: 'Lucifer.' I have to say, within about three or four pages, I thought it was hilarious; I laughed out loud a couple of times and knew this is the one that I wanted to do.

Your little Obama voice: 'Yes you can.' Listen to your inner Obama-voice.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.

I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days.

You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.

I always wanted to win, but I only used to get upset if I hadn't done myself and the people around me proud - that was my motivation for always wanting to do better.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.

I think any time there's a change in leadership there's a different personality, there's a different style involved with it, different demeanor.

I want to be a good person.