Favourite famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
-- Abigail Breslin -
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
-- Adolf Hitler -
My favourite part... I guess it's my legs.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.
-- Alex D. Linz -
My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.
-- Alice Temperley -
I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.
-- Andie MacDowell -
My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.
-- Anne Robinson -
My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.
-- Anton du Beke -
It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
-- Aphex Twin -
I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.
-- Arne Jacobsen -
My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m
-- Betty Cuthbert -
My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.
-- Billy Childish -
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
-- Brian Clough -
I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.
-- Cassandra Clare -
‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.
-- Charles Finch -
I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.
-- Christopher Guest -
Music is magic. It's my favourite drug: it really has an effect on me mentally and physically. It's such a rush
-- Craig Nicholls -
Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
-- David Allen -
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
-- David Brin -
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
-- Dick Cavett -
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film
-- Dinah -
Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me
-- Dinah -
I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
-- Douglas Hofstadter -
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
-- Douglas Horton -
I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.
-- Ellie Goulding -
Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.
-- Eric Schlosser -
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
-- Evan Esar -
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
-- Garry Trudeau -
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.
-- Hayley Mills -
The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.
-- Irene Thomas -
Don't make me flip you off" "Why would I deprive you of a favourite hobby?" "Because my finger's getting sore.
-- J.R. Ward -
One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.
-- James Mangold -
Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.
-- Janet Street-Porter -
Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
-- Jeffrey Archer -
The Gallifreyan balls are my favourite because you can juggle with them!
-- Jenna Coleman -
I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
-- John Hurt -
Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.
-- John Mayer -
My favourite painting is often the one or the collection that I am currently working on. This is probably due to the fact that I don't yet know where it will take me.
-- Joseph Pisani -
Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.
-- Justine Larbalestier -
Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.
-- Katy B -
My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.
-- Kevin McCloud -
Whats my favourite book? It changes all the time.
-- Kevin Spacey -
I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.
-- Kiefer Sutherland -
Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.
-- Kirsty Gallacher -
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
-- Lee Simonson -
If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do.
-- Lily Cole -
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
-- Louise Lester -
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
-- Marilyn Manson -
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
-- Marshall McLuhan -
You know what my favourite quotation is?...It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.
-- Mary McCarthy -
A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
-- Maurice Jarre -
I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.
-- Megan Gallagher -
I hate foreplay, I want to get straight to the point. My favourite position is on top so I can take control.
-- Melissa Satta -
Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.
-- Michael Foot -
Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
-- Mike Myers -
I grew up watching Scooby Doo and Thelma was my favourite character.
-- MyAnna Buring -
When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.
-- Paullina Simons -
My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
-- Peter Tork -
London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.
-- Phife Dawg -
A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
-- Robert Foster Bennett -
For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.
-- Rupert Grint -
What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.
-- Sam Keen -
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson -
Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.
-- Sara Genn -
The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
-- Sara Paretsky -
Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies.
-- Sheherazade Goldsmith -
My style of dressing is extremely personal. I am impressionable only to a certain extent. The rest of it is my personal concoction consisting of my favourite trends.
-- Shraddha Kapoor -
I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.
-- Sidney Crosby -
My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.
-- Stan Wawrinka -
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.
-- Stewart Copeland -
The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.
-- Teddy Thompson -
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
-- Thomas R. Pickering -
My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
-- Uwe Boll -
Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
-- Vidal Sassoon -
In God we trust; all others bring data.
-- W. Edwards Deming -
Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
-- Zola Budd -
I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite band of all time.
-- Charlie Benante -
My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.
-- Chika Anadu -
To be a dad: Make peace with the fact that you will now be your partner's second favourite person in the world.
-- Chris Ramsey -
I loved what Brigitte Bardot represented in the 60's. Definite favourite.
-- Coeur de pirate -
He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.
-- Charles Finch -
In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.
-- Chiranjeevi -
Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.
-- Chris Lowe -
Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
-- Roddy Doyle -
I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.
-- Tessa Jowell -
In terms of favourite movies then, I like Lion King. Something more recent would be Alice in Wonderland; it'd be kind of cool to have The White Queen appear in Kingdom Hearts.
-- Tetsuya Nomura
