Chav Quotes

#1. I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

Kate Nash

#2. Chav-bashing draws on a long, ignoble tradition of class hatred. But it cannot be understood without looking at more recent events. Above all, it is the bastard child of a very British class war.

Owen Jones

#3. waking up mornings brings lingering suffering

Geza Csath

#4. Dean, you've been to Hell, I started the Apocalypse, and we're supposed to be possessed by an archangel and the devil. Now you're being skeptical?

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#5. In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool-wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis - man, the inventor of the city - we underwent 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages.

Howard Bloom

#6. To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete.

Marston James

#7. Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

Stuart Pearce

#8. I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

Tina Brown

#9. When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

Plato

#10. The promise was void, like so many other sweet, illusory promises of our childhood; void as promises made in Eden before the seasons were divided, and when the starry blossoms grew side by side with the ripening peach, - impossible to be fulfilled when the golden gates had been passed.

George Eliot

#11. No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.

St. Vincent

#12. Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

George Woodcock

#13. I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Marilyn Monroe

#14. Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.

John Updike

#15. Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

Daniel Kahneman

#16. My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

Dan Jenkins