Quotes About My Favourite Things

#1. 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

#2. I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

Aretha Franklin

#3. I do like a bit of flyin'. Comedy flying is one of my favourite things. I think it rates up there with a neck brace for funniness.

Jennifer Saunders

#4. I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

Paula Scher

#5. One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.

St. Vincent

#6. Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world.

Martin Freeman

#7. For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.

Rupert Grint

#8. I have a secret passion for horse riding. I haven't done it for ages, but I used to have a horse. I love it; it's one of my favourite things.

Jess Glynne

#9. I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

Paloma Faith

#10. I don't really like watching myself - it isn't necessarily one of my favourite things to do.

Brett Kelly

#11. I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

Maria Sharapova

#12. I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.

Alicia Silverstone

#13. Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

John Lasseter

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

Brian Wilson

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. That's one of my favourite things."
"What's that?"
"Watching you come down the stairs.

Rebecca Donovan

#19. This is what I'm talking about. I don't know if we can call a truce. All we know how to do is argue."
"You say that like it's a bad thing."
"Isn't it?"
"Jessica," he whispered, "arguing with you is one of my favourite things to do.

Penny Reid

#20. Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.

Danny Fox

#21. My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.

Billy Childish

#22. One of my favourite things about being an author is waking up knowing that there are worlds just waiting to be discovered and created.

C.S. Woolley

#23. It's a funny thing, now; I very often think of my poor wife, but I cannot think of her very much at any one time." "Often, but a little at a time, like poor old Swann," became one of my grandfather's favourite phrases, which he would apply to all kinds of things.

Marcel Proust

#24. I love coffee, I love my family, I love being in New Zealand - that's honestly one of my top five favourite things - faith is important to me, and I hope to be married one day. I love that coffee was number one.

Zac Farro

#25. My favourite designers always create a strong silhouette, like McQueen and Tom Ford and Alaia. I like structured things that you can throw on, and it's almost like armour, and you're, like, ready for the day.

Liberty Ross

#26. My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.

Peter Golkin

#27. I've been called other things too, and some of them uncomplimentary and sexist like the 'Queen of Sprawl', 'Attila the Hen,' 'The Mom who runs Mississauga' and the 'Mississauga Rattler', so it's little wonder that my favourite nickname is Hurricane Hazel.

Hazel McCallion

#28. My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

Sadie Jones

#29. I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'

Elizabeth Strout

#30. Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

Kirsty Gallacher

#31. My favourite dish is pollo ajillo; my favourite drink is a good Rioja with it. And as for my favourite music, oh God - there's so many things I like. Well, I'd say it's 'Walk of Life' by Dire Straits.

Stephen Lang

#32. 'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.

Raine Maida

#33. My favourite thing about touring is really the shows, because early on you can say it's definitely things like travel and seeing the world and stuff like that, but over time you don't really get to see the world. The most important thing in the day is the show. So that's why I do it.

Gerard Way

#34. Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing ... pencil is more my medium than wet paint.

Cy Twombly

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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