Q Magazine Quotes

#1. The hardest thing was launching 'OK!' magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. 'The Express' was my defining moment because our turnover was less than £100m with 150 employees.

Richard Desmond

#2. There were filing cabinets, desks once occupied by long-redundant agents, tables, piles of paperwork, back issues of Spells magazine, several worn-out sofas, and in the corner, a moose.

Jasper Fforde

#3. I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

Bjork

#4. I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.

Tom Weston-Jones

#5. Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly.

Jonathan Adler

#6. There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on magazine covers so often that we think we know them intimately, and we want to learn more. I like to burst that bubble a little.

Alison Jackson

#7. I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

Rod Stewart

#8. Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.

Milla Jovovich

#9. How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't [Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen of the May at the fun-loving Nation magazine)] seen Fahrenheit 9/11?

Ann Coulter

#10. I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff.

John Barton

#11. I like my mug shot. I think I have a really great mug shot. It looks like a magazine shoot.

Paris Hilton

#12. I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what made the magazine so popular was, there was a point of view in the magazine, that you couldn't run nude pictures without some kind of rational that they were art.

Hugh Hefner

#13. I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

Dick Dale

#14. I WAS YOUNG!! I WAS STUPID.. YOU TOLD ME GIRLS BOUGHT THAT MAGAZINE!!

Shawn Michaels

#15. Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Dick Dale

#16. I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

Alice Sebold

#17. However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

Ted Allen

#18. Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

Robert E. Howard

#19. Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months.

Cindy Margolis

#20. But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

Jerry Zucker

#21. I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.

Yvon Chouinard

#22. Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of minefield and help give people their lives back. As simple as that.

Twiggy

#23. I laugh and go back to looking at my magazine. Actually, it's not really a magazine. It's a math journal, because I'm super cool like that.

Tarryn Fisher

#24. I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

Andre Benjamin

#25. Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine.

Jen Kirkman

#26. Knowing that history carried itself in the body and soul, not a physical location, not in letters burned in a fire or a magazine trapped beneath the rubble,

Kristen Simmons

#27. Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

Tabitha Soren

#28. I always go for 'SPIN' magazine because I'm such a music buff.

Reid Scott

#29. Naked people look funny when they are for-real naked, outside-a-magazine naked.

Donald Miller

#30. I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

Kate Winslet

#31. People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention.

Marco Arment

#32. My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone ... from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

Audrey Hepburn