Favourite Quotes - Page 18

• ‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

  Charles Finch

  Book, People, Envied

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• I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long time…but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SUPERMAN RETURNS and all the others feel a little like Saturday morning cartoons next to the carbon black glory that is 'The Dark Knight.' Trust me, *this* is the future of this sort of thing.

  Grant Morrison

  Morning, Dark, Men

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• this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more.

  Claudia Gray

  Sadness, Thinking, Forever

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• My favourite riposte to a heckle is to say, 'Excuse me, I'm trying to work here. How would you like it if I stood yelling down the alley while you're giving blow jobs to transsexuals?'

  Paul Merton

  Jobs, Blow, Yelling

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• But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

  Ridley Scott

  Adventure, Smell, Creating

  "Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Children, Fire, Ice

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: The Sentinel”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to your favourite tune. Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what's happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky.

  Joan Littlewood

  Baby, Lying, Sky

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• Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.

  Megan Gallagher

  Theatre, Roles, Tvs

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• I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.

  Megan Gallagher

  Right Now

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• She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Long, Nephew, Looks

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• Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Perfection, Grace, Church

  Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Living Dead Girl”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

  Sarah Zettel

  Night, People, Trying

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• When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories

  Orhan Pamuk

  Fall, Light, Years

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Running, Song, Writing

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck.

  J. D. Salinger

  Animal, Boys, Expression

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• Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.

  Michael Flatley

  Struggle, Thinking, Favourite City

  "Celtic Tiger" by Lizzie Guilfoyle, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

  Paula Scher

  Impact, Design, Posters

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• Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and effectively his only friend, to encourage him to rejectthe consensus of opinionand find reassurance only in her arms is binding her mate to her with hoops of steel that will strangle them both.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Pride, Reality

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• We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

  Dave Mason

  Favourite City, Cities, Wicked

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• My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.

  Betty Cuthbert

  Winning, Events

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Play, Boards, Chess

  Alexander Alekhine (1955). “My best games of chess, 1924-1937”

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• When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Dog, Mean, Thinking

  "Patrick Demarchelier: I Don’t Care — Or Know — Who I Shoot" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2012.

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• My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.

  Mario Testino

  Opportunity, Curiosity, Possibility

  "Mario Testino interview: the man who makes models super". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.

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• My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

  Robert Palmer

  Growing Up, Track, Pirate

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• My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

  Douglas Adams

  Fall, Tree, Sloth

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.110, Del Rey

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