Best 159 quotes in «favourite quotes» category

I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do.

I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

I grew up watching Scooby Doo and Thelma was my favourite character.

I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, "What you think about me is none of my business.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.

I hate foreplay, I want to get straight to the point. My favourite position is on top so I can take control.

In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.

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

I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.

I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

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.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

In our world, it's a big deal when you have a favourite collaborator and share them.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

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.

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.

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.

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.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

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

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

Music is magic. It's my favourite drug: it really has an effect on me mentally and physically. It's such a rush.

My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.

London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

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.

My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.

My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.