Quotes About Nottingham

#1. I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop drama group in Nottingham when I was 11 and went there for ten years.

Vicky McClure

#2. My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

Neon Hitch

#3. It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.

Jon McGregor

#4. My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when my friend was at university there. I've always found it a friendly place and has a good night life.

Jess Glynne

#5. When the polar ice advanced as far as Nottingham, my school was closed and I was evacuated to Mars.

Sophia McDougall

#6. Traditional Anglicans - whether in Nigeria or Nottingham - have been wary, at best, of the acceptance and welcome given to gay men and women and their sexual choices by secular society.

Michael Gove

#7. I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school and free to go to - ITV subsidised it. Every now and again, a casting director would turn up. 'Peak Practice' became a rite of passage for us. It was the first job I had.

Joe Dempsie

#8. The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.

Richard Gough

#9. Having travelled and lived and worked in many different places, I was keen to come back and settle in Nottingham, partly because my family are here, but also because Nottingham is such a vibrant city.

Nicola Monaghan

#10. Oh, I love Nottingham. I know some people go, 'Oh God, there's not much going off there,' but I like staying in and going round to my mum and dad's for a Sunday roast.

Vicky McClure

#11. The future is bright, but fools run straight ahead and get blinded then complain, because they didn't prepare by simply wearing a pair of shades.

James Jean-Pierre

#12. Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Adam Smith

#13. I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

Rashida Jones

#14. My mother's hands were sixty-four years old, weathered, beautiful. They were soft and hard and they held no duplicity of emotion. They didn't love and hate. They were not tender and violent. They never offered me the world and handed me hell. They were constant: I miss them purely.

Maggie MacKellar

#15. The past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.

Lauren Oliver

#16. Zero Day was here.

David Baldacci

#17. I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

Georgina Chapman

#18. The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

John Bowlby

#19. I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'

Kyle Kinane

#20. Verbal description of everything, however, must remain infinitely distant from the thing itself, overstatement and understatement sometimes hitting off the truth better than a flat assertion of bare fact.

Anthony Powell

#21. Physics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.

Christine O'Donnell

#22. It's my world, best friend. And I haven't seen anything outside that's better.

Chaim Potok

#23. The idea that at each successive moment he was deeper into the Sahara than he had been the moment before, that he was leaving behind all familiar things, this constant consideration kept him in a state of pleasurable agitation.

Paul Bowles

#24. Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

Don DeLillo

#25. The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

Jarvis Cocker