Favourite Quotes - Page 17

• The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'

  Tom Brokaw

  Iraq, France, Firsts

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• Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Eating Good, World, Good Food

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• Fans are my favourite thing in the world

  Taylor Swift

  Fans, World, Favourite Things

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• My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Falling In Love, Ideas, Scary

  "Vampires and Friendship Provide Comical Mix in Team Human" by Julie A. Carlson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• My favourite city is Miami. It's very fresh and the beach is sunny.

  Liu Wen

  Beach, Favourite City, Cities

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• Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.

  Joan Baez

  Dark, Animal, Keys

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• [On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Suffering, Literature, May

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• The white Aylesbury duck is, and deservedly, a universal favourite. Its snowy plumage and comfortable comportment make it a credit to the poultry-yard, while its broad and deep breast, and its ample back, convey the assurance that your satisfaction will not cease at its death.

  Isabella Beeton

  Food, Ducks, White

  Isabella Beeton (2006). “Mrs Beeton's Household Management”, p.428, Wordsworth Editions

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• The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Kindness, Children, Rain

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.439

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• He whom nature thus bereaves,
  Is ever fancy's favourite child;
  For thee enchanted dreams she weaves
  Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Dream, Children, Fancy

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• Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

  Garry Wills

  Children, Self, Politician

  "Lead time". Book by Garry Wills, 1983.

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• My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

  Alice Temperley

  Pieces, Antiques

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• 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

  Facts, Painting, Take Me

  "The Conceptual Artist". Inside Switzerland magazine, Summer 2006.

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• I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Sunset, Hollywood, Watches

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• For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.

  Twiggy

  Nice, Mean, Years

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• Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

  Dawn French

  Play, Theatre, Saws

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• To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

  Jessica Marais

  Moving, Reading, Failing

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• The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spiritual, Sex, Father

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus”, p.350, 谷月社

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• The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards the end of the preceding year: and, as the distressful situation of the Goths required an instant and peremptory decision, he was deprived of the favourite resource of feeble and timid minds; who consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.

  Edward Gibbon

  Brother, Years, History

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Stan Wawrinka

  Diners, Film, French Movies

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• I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

  Mario Testino

  School, Logic, Problem

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• I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.

  Steven Gerrard

  Girl, Men, House

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Play, Radio

  "Neil Gaiman Interview". Interview with Trevor Valle, www.bitingdogpress.com.

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

  Anne Robinson

  Ysl, Designer, Mcqueen

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