Top 930 Quotes & Sayings by Welsh Authors - Page 2

I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.

There was so much great music around in the '60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.

You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.

I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.

And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

You have to promote yourself; you have to have this smile on your face all the time and be this nice guy - which I am!

Everyone writes differently. I hope to get people energized so they'll want to rush home to write.

When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.

My role in AC/DC is to keep time and to drive the band as much as I can. That's a drummer's role anyway.

You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.

All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.

Often when I meet people and say I'm a designer, they say, 'Oh, a fashion designer.' Which is not a bad thing I suppose, a bit groovy.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.

I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.

When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed.

You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house.

Any filmmakers out there want a Welshman with sharp cheekbones and wonky teeth to play the love interest in their movie, give me a call.

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

There is something about having babies in your 40s that is unique in both a humiliating and amazing way.

I read a book called 'The Tao of Physics' by Fritjof Capra that pointed out the parallels between quantum physics and eastern mysticism. I started to feel there was more to reality than conventional science allowed for and some interesting ideas that it hadn't got round to investigating, such as altered states of consciousness.

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

All software sucks.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London.

Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

Kids love rabbits... they just like them.

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

A lot of actors won't do things because they say it is boring when you are always working. A lot of them won't go on tour, a lot won't do pantomime. I think you should do everything.

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

What's important is Welsh football and that it progresses.

The cycle of jobless youth, uncertainty about the future, depressing consumption, and weak investment and stresses on both the supply and demand side of economies are all thorns in the wheel of capitalism.

My son Simon had one of Elvis's favorite meals when we visited Graceland - a peanut butter and banana sandwich. Fried! Can you imagine the cholesterol?

I feel like I'm a skittle. If I'm knocked down, I'll get up and try again.

I knew Joe Strummer back in the days before he formed the Clash.

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

You're not going to please everyone, but then, it's not about pleasing people: it's about winning rugby games.

I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like you're failing or that you're doing it wrong.

And then the last album, 'Get It', was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.

You can't just drive with no brakes and think that everything is going to go great, and the minute something goes bad, you fall apart.

People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'

If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.