East Yorkshire Sayings

#1. As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.

Anna Maxwell Martin

#2. I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night - or any other time, for that matter - unless they were dressed to the nines.

Anna Maxwell Martin

#3. East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

David Hockney

#4. Max is short for General Maximus Decimus Meridius.

James L. Rubart

#5. I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in the U.K. My old man was East London. I was brought up in Yorkshire. My great-grandfather was Irish.

Sebastian Coe

#6. Not every path in the road needs to be followed. Sometimes it's smarter to quit and go home.

Jennifer Probst

#7. Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

Frank Bidart

#8. Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

Vanessa Paradis

#9. How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.

Christopher Peterson

#10. Success is nothing without morals

Fayrouz Yasser