My Favourite Quotes

#1. 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.

Fede Alvarez

#2. The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

Teresa Palmer

#3. I eat soup noodles for comfort. In fact, noodles of any kind. It's a food that is very easy to eat; it's very soothing and comfortable, too. If I could choose any, I'd say buckwheat was my favourite: it has a very good flavour and is healthy, too.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#4. Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides ... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.

Alan Grant

#5. I was never my favourite subject.

Lauren Bacall

#6. I not often like the begining of something it has it owns doubts, loses and failures. But the end is my favourite part, everyone loses something or somebody.

Deyth Banger

#7. It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.

Cliff Richard

#8. I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

Brian Wilson

#9. I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream.

Andrew Buchan

#10. Tales of triumph are my favourite.

S.A. Tawks

#11. You're my very favourite person in the known universe

Stephenie Meyer

#12. We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

Dave Mason

#13. I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.

Rafael Nadal

#14. One of my favourite sorts of actors ... the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

Joss Whedon

#15. James Bond was an early favourite, although I didn't understand much of it. I read the Bible a lot, too. You might say that this was my favourite, since I seemed to read it so often.

Philip Kerr

#16. Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

Trevor Phillips

#17. I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food.

Ruth Reichl

#18. When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.

Linwood Barclay

#19. One of my favourite messages about 'The Pirate Fairy' is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

Christina Hendricks

#20. You did not sell nor wanted to buy me Ice cream.
You gave me my most favourite flavour.
Petra Hermans

Petra Hermans

#21. I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.

Carolina Herrera

#22. I know I won't be the first one to say this, but Suzuka is definitely my favourite circuit of the year.

Romain Grosjean

#23. My favourite movie is 'Terms of Endearment.'

Leslie Mann

#24. I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

Debbie Reynolds

#25. Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.

Diego Luna

#26. You know what my favourite quotation is? ... It's from Chaucer ... Criseyde says it, I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.

Mary McCarthy

#27. I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.

Melanie Martinez

#28. Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Anne Bronte

#29. Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant alphonso mango salad.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#30. At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we'd do it as many times as we could until we got banned! We used to sing 'Hero' by Mariah Carey; it was, like, my favourite song; we were obsessed with it. We'd do it as a duet, and it's the first I remember performing.

Jess Glynne

#31. 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

#32. I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.

Tessa Jowell

#33. A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

Maurice Jarre

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

Anne Robinson

#35. Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Orlando Bloom

#36. My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.

Bindi Irwin

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

Megan Gallagher

#38. Twenty-four year olds were my new favourite thing. I needed to tell Oprah to put them on her list.

Alice Clayton

#39. I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I put him to one side, and with the ardour and earnestness of my eighteen years I fell in love with one author after another: Flaubert, Gogol, Melville, and even Romain Rolland.

Dai Sijie

#40. Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.

Laura Mvula

#41. Listening to people howl in misery is not one of my favourite pastimes.

John Green

#42. One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis.

Emily Perkins

#43. I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.

Radha Mitchell

#44. 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.

Asif Kapadia

#45. In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Gail Devers

#46. I've never travelled," I told her. "Oh, you absolutely should," she insisted, "if only so that you can come home and really see it for what it is. That's my favourite part.

Paula McLain

#47. My favourite victory is when it is not even clear where my opponent made a mistake.

Peter Leko

#48. I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

Donald Glover

#49. Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about ... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."

Shailene Woodley

#50. 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

#51. When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club

Robert Pires

#52. My favourite character would have to be 'Ash,' because I love my brooding bad boys. But a certain snarky talking cat runs a very close second.

Julie Kagawa

#53. 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

#54. Hemingway is my favourite writer, I'm just not the hugest fan of his writing.

Atticus

#55. My favourite all time quote is from Eileen Gray, the subject of my new book The Interview. She believed, 'to create one must first question everything'. A concept that applies to writing as to life

Eileen Gray

#56. 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

#57. I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.

John Nettles

#58. I walked toward the bar where The Reader sat turning pages, a cup of coffee at his elbow. His sleeves were rolled up, revealing thick forearms covered in tattoos.
Oh. Sweet. Lord.
Really, he was all of my favourite things.

Molly O'Keefe

#59. Avocados are my favourite fruit.

Sylvia Plath

#60. If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

Vikram Seth

#61. My new favourite pastime is listening to Michael Brown read his poetry"
Sigourney Weaver

Michael Brown

#62. Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.

Paul Haggis

#63. Because I am your favourite grandson, and you love me more than all of my brothers."
"Nyet. You are the most frustrating of my grandsons. Find a good woman, marry her, have children - then you will be my favourite."
"Perhaps I shall settle for second favourite. What would that take?

Karen Hawkins

#64. I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie.

Domhnall Gleeson

#65. If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.

Bae Doona

#66. I love heels, and as a size 36, I've accumulated a wall of amazing high heels from catwalk shows over the years where designers had to make especially small shoes. Tom Ford's golden versions are my favourite. I do, however, also live in my flat Saint Laurent Chelsea boots or Givenchy sneakers.

Liberty Ross

#67. My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.

Edie Campbell

#68. Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.

Lauren Bacall

#69. Of everything
I have ever endured,

Y
O
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are
My Favourite Tragedy.

Meraaqi

#70. 'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.

Amanda Donohoe

#71. I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

James McAvoy

#72. 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

#73. I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.

Cassandra Clare

#74. My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hung cliffs and slippery boulders. It has a torrential sheet waterfall at one end and is almost black in colour, so it appears bottomless, a portal to nowhere.

Sarah Hall

#75. Many celebrations are set to take place in Swarnim Gujarat. However, if one asks me, "As the Chief Minister, which is your favourite programme?" Then friends, I would like to say that 'Vanche Gujarat' is the closest to my heart.

Narendra Modi

#76. I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was 'The Secret Garden' which has a big influence on Lord Loss, believe it or not!

Darren Shan

#77. My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.

Bong Joon-ho

#78. I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been. He's quite an incredible actor.

Ray Winstone

#79. When I was shooting 'Mud,' every day was my favourite! I had so much fun on this film and loved working with all the cast and crew! It was a great experience.

Tye Sheridan

#80. Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

Julie Burchill

#81. I'm super, it's like my favourite meal and a birthday blowjob from Christina Hendricks in here.

David Louden

#82. 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

#83. 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.

Madhur Bhandarkar

#84. My favourite actress is Meryl Streep. Oh, and Anna Magnani.

Penelope Cruz

#85. Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.

Prince

#86. Cooking is one of my favourite things - from going to the market, bringing the stuff home and preparing it, to cleaning the kitchen afterwards. I've lost my figure a few times. There have been moments when I've overeaten, for comfort. But with discipline and hard work, you can get your figure back.

Linda Evangelista

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

Arthur C. Clarke

#88. Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

Zola Budd

#89. When I started, I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.

Sonu Nigam

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of 'The Saint.' He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my favourite actor to work with.

Shirley Eaton

#93. I was not surprised when Holmes suggested that I should take my revolver with me. He had himself picked up the loaded hunting-crop, which was his favourite weapon.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Stanislas Wawrinka

#95. My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.

Jon Richardson

#96. Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessly cool.

Leigh Lezark

#97. Studying Mahler changed many things in my tastes as a composer. Mahler & Berg are my favourite composers even today, as opposed to Hindemith, say, a Krenek and Milhaud whom I liked when I was young but cooled towards rapidly.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#98. 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

#99. My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

Gordon Brown

#100. Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.

Karisma Kapoor