Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ang Lee

San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.

Anthony Eden

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

Anthony Daniels

If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

Noel Redding

My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.

One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

Ma Jian

I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

Benny Hill

Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?

Carol Vorderman

Change is one of my favourite words.

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

Aaron Paul

My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'

Gwen Stefani

We've been all around the world and that's my favourite part of everything I do.

Christopher Masterson

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

Eleanor Catton

I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.

In my opinion, we won't be favourites and the likes of North-East, Ayrshire and Dumbartonshire are all likely to be vying for the trophy,

John Burnside

I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space.

Rebecca Stead

I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot!

Eleanor Catton

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.

David Miliband

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.

Colin Cooper

We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.

Chris Riddell

The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!

Jeffrey Archer

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

George Herbert

Favour will as surely perish as life.

Erin Heatherton

Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.

George Herbert

Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.

George Herbert

They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.

Hugh Jackman

Tiramisu is my favourite.

I definitely have favourites in terms of albums.

Gethin Jenkins

He's one of the favourite sons of Stradey Park,

Paloma Faith

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

Publilius Syrus

He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!