Top 190 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Television presenters - Page 3

I was captain of the netball team, captain of the hockey team and I did my sprinting, but I would push myself. That's why yoga is really good for me because it actually slows me down and finds some sort of space for me.

Chesterfield 1, Chester 1. Another score draw in the local derby

I have no intention of taking a break

While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.

In the west we think of yoga as an exercise programme, when actually where it's from in India it's a whole philosophy. The Asanas and the exercise programme are one tiny aspect of it, and so it really, really fascinates me.

I'm very happy to say that my home life is my haven.

Presenting Saturday mornings has been a dream for a long time. And one day in September I am going to wake up very early and it will be a reality. I can't wait.

I'd missed science and what it was all about because I was too busy trying to think of other things, when I was at school. I was too busy trying to be James Dean.

I would just say try it and see if you like it. See how it makes you feel and remember that it's not about being perfect, it's about just doing your best. I think it would have tremendous benefits for everyone.

At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out.

As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure.

If you go through life and actually get to find out the thing you want to do, you're very lucky.

Those people who are scared of science or are a bit dismissive of science tend to not really understand what science really is, which is the most beautiful, most elegant and most creative way of looking at the world.

Wonderful things start to happen when you dream outside of your sleep.

I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show

You do see some people that can contort themselves all the way around, but they may have been practicing for years, they may be gymnasts or they may just be flexible.

I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were.

People think I get this free wardrobe but, sadly, that's not the case. I sometimes sell my unwanted clothes and shoes at car-boots so I can buy more - that's my guilty secret.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music.

New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England.

If you're still watching, write in and we'll send you a fiver each.

In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.

Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.

Your short-term memory really is shot! It must drive you nuts!!

Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed. It's pretty amazing. And when you see them being taken apart and you see the work that goes into keeping those things in the air, you think, "Wow!"

I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.

I've always been a bit of a dreamer. I've always loved to look and seek, and explore and find out.

It's a Renaissance, or put more simply, some you win, some you lose

Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.

It's my personal perspective that you live as hard and as vigorously as you can.

Too much apology doubles the offense.

My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!" We had a lovely childhood.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.

It's literally murder on the dancefloor.

No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.

When my life does get frantic and busy, there's always time to fit something in, even if it means getting up 15 minutes earlier. I get out of bed, do a few Asanas and then do a little bit of mediation. I just structure it into the day. It's really, really simple.

I've always paid off my mortgage as much as I could.

If you get up every morning and smile, it's a good place to be.

My goals are something I believe in, because I believe I'm going to make it.

Christmas is the one day of the year when it's most obvious someone's missing. It had to become less about the presents.

Yoga is about working with what you've got on that day. Some days you may find certain positions easier to get into than others. It's not about comparing yourself or judging yourself, it's about being in that moment and doing your best.

I think during the day, when I was doing the Masterchef experience, everything I'd learnt in yoga, the breathing techniques, etc, would really help and it would calm me down because it was so stressful.

It takes time,patience and endurance to become a devout Muslim. No one, not even God, expects anyone to become an angel overnight. That's fortunate, I thought, because I sensed that the road ahead might be a long one

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

When I bought my first house in London with my husband-to-be, our surveyor said: "Nicki, you're paying top dollar, but it's not an investment," and I said: "But we're buying a home, not an investment."

I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.

Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.

Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, "Life is good!"

Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

Anger has been ready to be angry.

We will never have total control over this extraordinary dimension. Time will warp and confuse and baffle and entertain however much we learn about its capacities. But the more we learn, the more we can shape it to our will and destiny. We can slow it down or speed it up. We can hold on to the past more securely and predict the future more accurately. Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.

I want people to know that the fight is worth it.

Yeah. Science doesn't end. That's the one thing I learned. People think of science as spitting out right answers, and that's it. It's always under review.

So, I mean to say, as for those who are proving their allegiance with what I would call sickening perseverance, and who are urging the president to brush away the constitution, those I would like to remind of a Russian proverb: "Don't spit into the well, it'll come in handy once you're thirsty.