My Favourite Quotes

What do you want?"
Jace shrugged. "Clothes mostly, some weapons."
Sebastion shook his head. "Too dangerous. We need to get in and out fast. Only emergency items."
"My favourite jacket is an emergency item," Jace said. It was so much like hearing him talk to Alec, to any of his friends. "Much like myself, it is both snuggly and fashionable.
- Cassandra Clare

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.
- Clive Anderson

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
- Diane Arbus

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

I admire all my three sons-in-law highly. Wickham, perhaps is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's.
- Jane Austen

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
- Cameron Crowe

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
- Boris Becker

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.
- Boris Becker

I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.
- Haruki Murakami

I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.
- E M Forster

My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
- Uwe Boll

My favourite quality workout is 6 X 5 minutes with 1 minute rest between each.
- Jonathan Brown

Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
- Zola Budd

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
- Chuck Palahniuk

I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long time...but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SUPERMAN RETURNS and all the others feel a little like Saturday morning cartoons next to the carbon black glory that is 'The Dark Knight.'
Trust me, *this* is the future of this sort of thing.
- Grant Morrison

They are all my favourites. All of them.
- Stephen Chbosky

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

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
- Orson Scott Card

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

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]
- Arthur C Clarke

I don't mind summer rain. In fact I like it. It's my favourite sort.' 'Your favourite sort of rain?' said Thea. I remember that she was frowning, and pondering these words, and then she announced: 'Well, I like the rain before it falls.
- Jonathan Coe

To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.
- Lily Collins

Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him.
- Jennifer Connelly

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 sport is cheerleading!
- Miley Cyrus

My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block.
- Alan Davies

I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.
- Snoop Dogg

That's one of my favourite things."
"What's that?"
"Watching you come down the stairs.
- Rebecca Donovan

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
- Carol Ann Duffy

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

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
- Dakota Fanning

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.
- Richard Fleeshman

Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.
- Stephen Fry

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.
- Kirsty Gallacher

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

I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.
- Megan Gallagher

I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
- Valentino Garavani

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.
- Robin Gibb

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity,
- Ben Goldacre

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.
- Michel Gondry

Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of the whole post-impressionist period, by which I mean that before them Bonnard, Vuillard, & Seurat are my favourite painters of that time.
- Edward Gorey

For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.
- Rupert Grint

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

... you have not asked me, for instance, what is my favourite flavour of jam, to check that I am indeed Professor Dumbledore, and not an imposter." "For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam-preferences before impersonating myself.
- J K Rowling

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

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
- Richard D James

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.
- Louise Jameson

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
- Maurice Jarre

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

Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way.
- Frank Lampard

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.
- Nicholas Lea

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

After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.
- Peter Mayhew

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.
- Radha Mitchell

As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.
- Colin Mochrie

My favourite movie right now is probably 'Hitch,' a Will Smith thing.
- Chris Moneymaker

Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.
- Roger Moore

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
- Cillian Murphy

My favourite prank in heavy metalwork was to get a penny and spend three or four minutes making it really hot with a blowtorch, and then leave it on Mr Lane's desk, so that he'd see it and pick it up out of curiosity.
First you'd hear: 'Waaaaahhhhhh!'
Then: 'Osbourne, you little bastard!'
Heh-heh-heh.
The old hot-penny trick. Priceless, man.
- Ozzy Osbourne

Vanity is my favourite sin.
- Al Pacino

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
- Vidal Sassoon

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
- Sara Paretsky

Dennis faced him. They glared at each other again. Neither said a word until Dennis set the glasses down, leaned back against the counter, and folded his arms over his chest. "You're an idiot." "Seems to be a common conclusion. You're not my favourite person right now either.
- Sloan Parker

Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your normal routine at home. It is just a bit more discipline and not eating breads and pastas which are my favourite foods in the entire world.
- Sally Pearson

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not.
- Saul Perlmutter

He's pressing me to his chest. I melt. Oh, this is where I want to be
I rest my head against him, and he kisses my hair repeatedly. This is home. He smells of linen, fabric softener, body wash, and my favourite smell - Christian. For a moment, I allow myself the illusion that all will be well, and it soothes my ravaged soul
- James E Rogers

I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little.22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.
- Jeri Ryan

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.
- Ridley Scott

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.
- Elizabeth Scott

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
- Dinah Sheridan

'Baby Boy' is one of my favourite films, and Tyrese keeps telling everybody we're going to make a sequel. I mean, we have a story right now but we don't know where we're going to take it.
- John Singleton

I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.
- Nigel Slater

When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.
- Pamela Stephenson

Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.
- Janet Streetporter

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.
- John Terry

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.
- Alicia Vikander

Change is one of my favourite words.
- Carol Vorderman

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.
- David Walliams

My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little vegetarian restaurant and is really fun and healthy, too. It was the first place I went to in London and really liked. That was 20 years ago, and it is still my favourite.
- David Walliams

Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
- Lalla Ward

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?
- Arabella Weir

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.
- Saul Williams

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
- Victoria Wood