Favourite Quotes - Page 23

• I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

  Rod Stewart

  Voice, Done, Singers

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• 'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

  Felix Dennis

  Art, Media, America

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• The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Reflection, Simple, Glasses

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• What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun. My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random. The teenage daughter is my favourite, because I just had her go through this Goth phase. She's really kind of nerdy and she just became a concert violinist, which is pretty huge for the family. And she got into private school. But she started wearing black lipstick and she dyed her hair purple. It's pretty huge.

  Gerard Way

  Daughter, Teenage, Fun

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• I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

  Maria Sharapova

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing;
  If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully -
  A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages.
  Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe!

  Ikkyu

  Beautiful, Strong, Night

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• When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

  David Walliams

  Children, Book, Hands

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.

  Kate Morton

  War, Book, Different

  Kate Morton (2008). “The House at Riverton”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

  John Millington Synge

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.18, Northwestern University Press

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• I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. Players like Denis Law and George Best who I enjoyed so much as team-mates and now, finally, players I have watched closely in the Alex Ferguson era. And in so many ways Scholes is my favourite. I love his nous and conviction that he will find a way to win, to make the killer pass or produce the decisive volley.

  Bobby Charlton

  Football, Team, Winning

  "Paul Scholes Earns Plaudits From Football's Elite". www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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• When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Giving Up, Chairs

  "Genius declared: Wilde tops the wit list" by Aidan Jones, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.

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• My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour or like an oxygen tank when you can't breath in a world consumed by piety, hypocrisy and self-satisfaction.

  Simon Critchley

  Dark, Self, Oxygen

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• Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Favourite City, Cities, Earth

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• Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets." Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed.

  Willis Regier

  Suffering, May, Literature

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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• The game [football] has moved on a lot but still, ask most players and they will tell you that pre-season isn't their favourite time of the year.

  Colin Kazim-Richards

  Football, Player, Years

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• I always look at my favourite photographs or favourite movies by James Bidgood or Sofia Coppola before I write my songs - they put me in the right frame of mind.

  Charli XCX

  Song, Writing, Mind

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

  Gordon Brown

  Sports, Teamwork, School

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• I remember Elton John used to be their owner and he is my favourite singer! I hope the match will be an opportunity to meet Elton John!

  Carlo Ancelotti

  Opportunity, Singers, Remember

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• A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visitor had just publicly disproved his favourite theory. The old man strode to the front of the lecture hall, shook the American warmly by the hand and declared in ringing, emotional tones: "My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years." And we clapped our hands red. Can you imagine a Government Minister being cheered in the House of Commons for a similar admission? "Resign, Resign" is a much more likely response!

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Emotional, Self

  "Science, delusion and the appetite for wonder". www.edge.org. December 21, 1996.

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• My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle….

  Charles Kennedy

  Stories, Cases, Novel

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• I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.

  Tessa Jowell

  Children, Book, Peter

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• Inside a dark well, everyman's favourite colour is blue!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Blue, Colour

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• Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

  Trevor Phillips

  Book, House, Bleak

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• My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

  John Cage

  Writing, Order, Music Is

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• My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.

  Andy Barrie

  Years, Old Buildings, Pieces

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