Best 159 quotes in «favourite quotes» category

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

To be a dad: Make peace with the fact that you will now be your partner's second favourite person in the world.

[What's my favourite book?] It changes all the time.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.)

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

When words come out of politician's mouth that are linguistically incorrect, people see it reflecting their intelligence. Sarah Palin was called out for "refudiate," which seemed to combine refute and repudiate. One favourite Bushism was "misunderestimate.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.

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.

A drop of PURE LOVE contains an ocean of transformative power... never underestimate the ripple effect

Find your favourite stuff and start exploring them deeper and deeper, let's see how far you can reach the limit is your life.

As the childhood leaves a deep mark in a person’s life, there is a strong influence of childhood in choosing the favourite writer. Say, if someone’s childhood passes amid the village, nature, river etc., then Rabindranath Tagore’s name should appear on top as one of the favourites!

I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that means I am entirely broken, or if those are the things that have been keeping me whole.

If I were a flower, humming bird would be my favourite bee And If I were blind, the light of darkness I'd love to see

I looked at the rusty-bottomed bread tin swiped too often by the dishcloth, and the pots sitting on the stove, washed but not put away, and the motto supplied by Fairholme Dairy: The Lord is the Heart of Our House. All these things stupidly waiting for the day to begin and not knowing that it had been hollowed out by catastrophe.

If you were to ask Jarod Kintz‬‬‬ what his personal favourite joke was, he'd say the one with the island. The big one next to New Zealand. -Stefan D and Jarod Kintz

Poetry is intimacy between poet and reader. It's revealing your truth and feeling safe acceptance in the unveiling

Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.

No one knows why they're born. You are simply brought forth in love. You arrive, and then everything else is guesswork. You choose a path, or it chooses you. You protest a lot ,or accept it willingly. It doesn't matter. It's yours, you own it. And now you have to live with it.

I know you dont care at all, but i still have to make you smile, cause i love seeing you smiling.

My favorite, how did you put it now? Landscapes, animals, plants? Favorite what? Books, music, architecture, painting? I don't have any favorite animals, no favorite mosquitoes, favorite beetles, favorite worms, even with the best will in the world I cannot tell you which birds or fish or predators I prefer, it would also be difficult for me to have to choose much more generally.

On old maps, cartographers would draw strange beasts around the margins and write phrases such as "Here be dragons." That's where monsters exist: in the unmapped spaces, in the places where we haven't filled in all the gaps...

Sin embargo, era cierto que por primera vez comprendió que las personas en las que había confiado podían traicionarlo algún día, y que por decepcionante que pudiera ser, también era inevitable, y la vida seguiría impulsándolo sin cesar hacia delante, porque, aunque todos le fallaran, siempre habría al menos una persona que no lo haría.

P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug

What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn't it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn't be Venice, said Connie's voice in my head. Then it would be Staines.

There's a saying, cited in popular song, that if you love someone you must set them free. Well, that's just nonsense. If you love someone, you bind them to you with heavy metal chains.

So here is another law, one of my favourite If I become famous the stupidy will end one for all. It's basically a jail for mankind stupidy!

The World comes like a lover, courting. But a seeker only sees a hunter, circling its prey.

Which is my favourite author?? You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books...

Which is my favourite book?? Very complicated question... so far... I think that the question should be "My favourite books...!".

You're next. It's the next thing. Next stop Kilburn Station. The doors fold inwards, urban insect closing its wings.

You are my favourite part of life.

You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not.

You're my favourite place to go when my mind searches for peace and my heart craves its home.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

50 is Eminem's favourite rapper... I'm my favourite rapper.

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