Pre Dinner Quotes

#1. Nick explained that an aperitif was an pre-dinner drink. Nick came from an aperitif-drinking family. Alice came from a family with one dusty bottle of Baileys sitting hopefully in the back of the pantry with the tins of spaghetti.

Liane Moriarty

#2. I've got a lot of nervous energy and I trip a lot. I don't have a good equilibrium. In the places where the physical comedy was necessary, it came very naturally and it was fun.

Kristen Bell

#3. I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.

Anna Sui

#4. Sometimes you feel amazing about life and other times you just feel fat and depressed, so I think it's good to be honest about that and to make light of it, I think humour is important, nobody's perfect.

Marina And The Diamonds

#5. You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.

Lucian Freud

#6. she was always careful to brush and re-braid her hair, making sure the blond plaits were straight

Ellen Marie Wiseman

#7. The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#8. The tragedy is all right there ... in the very beginning when he smiles at her. When she instantly forgets. Forgets how dangerous he is.

Anne Eliot

#9. The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#10. You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

Stephen Richards

#11. We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#12. What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.

Elizabeth Warren