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He has that uncanny ability to be dangerous and pull the public in [on Michael Barrymore]
Les Dennis

On Natalie Imbruglia: 'She's the kind of girl you could either rob a bank with or take to church.'
Bono

My knowledge of gardening has increased with age, although I'm not as active with the spade and fork as I used to be.
Terence Conran

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
Avery Brundage

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
William O Douglas

What do they know of cricket who only know of cricket?
C L R James

Jesu, good above all other, Gentle Child of gentle Mother, In a stable born our Brother, Guve us grace to persevere. ('Jesu, good above all other')
Percy Dearmer

I look at the incident and it was just a ridiculous fluke but it was reported as a mistake, as my fault [after the goof]
Paul Robinson

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
Anita Roddick

On supermodels: I don't let those women anywhere with me. I'm very selfish, and I hold myself in the highest regard.
Lara Flynn Boyle

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Josh Billings

If it came to singing the national anthems, I'd probably sing both of them [on an Englishman being appointed to a job for Scotland]
Terry Butcher

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.
Susan Faludi

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott

We know we're going to have to fight for every single yard in the field
Jonny Wilkinson

Such a nice man - that was the defining quality of him, a genuinely nice man. And he had no real ego. [on Richard Whiteley]
Ken Bruce

On her relationship with Kym Marsh: 'Contrary to what everyone thinks, there had never been this almighty fight, half of me wishes there had been because then we could have made up. Instead we were both just reading the stories in the press, which weren't true, and filling in the gaps ourselves. You're bound to get it wrong - and we did. Kym said, 'Well I heard you said this' and I said, 'Well I heard you said this' and then we both burst out laughing because all of it was so made up'.
Myleene Klass

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old. (A Taste of Honey)
Shelagh Delaney

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Thomas J Watson

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.
Suzanne Curchod Necker

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man. [Looking at adverts on TV these days it is probably going the other way]
Howard Gossage

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
Ernest Hemingway

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho!
Let Einstein be!' restored the status quo.
Sir J C Squire

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.
Anonymous

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley

I've told them they have to support England and if they don't, they won't be getting a ticket. [on his parents watching England]
Sajid Mahmood

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect
Egar Allan Poe

Honestly, I'm not excited at all right now. I'm having some issues off the court, just growing up, and I'm just taking it day by day. I'm trying to get back into it right now.
Ashley Harkleroad

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.
Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein

I'm envious he got there before me - I love the show so much [on Ricky Gervais role in the Simpsons]
Mackenzie Crook

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffer

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer

If you do not change the direction in which you are going, you will end up where you are headed.
Confucius

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. - Life and Human Nature
Logan Pearsall Smith

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
John Jakes

The most crucial location in space and time could be here and now.
Sir Martin Rees

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
Pope John Paul II

You're not a star until they can spell your name in karachi
Humphrey Bogart

These terrorists attacked without warning on 11 September 2001. They have attacked in Madrid, in Jakarta, in Morocco.

This is a worldwide war against ideals. There is no separate peace to be made with terrorism.

They are after our way of life and we have to deal with them. There is no other way other than with strength. [on the London terrorist attack, 7th July 2005]
Condoleezza Rice

I did it with the hand of reason [after smashing a photographer's car]
Diego Maradona

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Francis Picabia

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves
Phyllis Diller

I went over to say no hard feelings, but she [Jan Ravens] stormed off. The next thing I knew her husband was pushing me in the chest. I couldn't believe it.
Craig Revel Horwood

God wills, Man dreams, the Work is born.
Fernando Pessoa

There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
Harold Wilson

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
Steve Martin

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal



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