Best 14 quotes of Michael Parkinson on MyQuotes

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

I'm very fond of piano players.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality.

I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.

No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.

Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it's a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.