Richard Desmond Quotes

#1. I don't suppose you offered to help?"
"Sage," Adrian declared. "These hands don't do manual labor." He knocked another ball into a hole. "You want to play?"
"What? With you?"
"No, with Clarence." He sighed at my dumbfounded look. "Yes, of course with me.

Richelle Mead

#2. You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

Steven Spielberg

#3. God predetermined our destiny.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. I hate to admit this, but I've never actually hit anyone. I don't even kill wasps or spiders. I'm pretty veggie as well. In fact, really, I'm New Age.

Richard Desmond

#5. When I was 13, I forged my date of birth so that I could get a Saturday job at Woolworth's, earning £1 3s 6d for the day. But my real ambition was to do something in the music world - or, at least, close to it.

Richard Desmond

#6. Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

John Singer Sargent

#7. The idea of something for nothing is appealing in some visceral way.
Even free things are never free.
The burden of ownership means everything has a price.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#8. I've got so much money it's ridiculous.

Richard Desmond

#9. I'm in spend-down. I've got a billion in cash. You can't leave people a billion pounds, can you?

Richard Desmond

#10. I love my BlackBerry, I love my Apple Mac, I love technology.

Richard Desmond

#11. As Desmond Tutu told me on a recent trip to Cape Town, We are only the light bulbs, Richard, and our job is just to remain screwed in!

Richard Rohr

#12. Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. 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

#14. Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

Julianne Moore

#15. Musicians get tense at big gigs. Some you can't talk to before the concert; some you can't talk to afterwards; some need the same size dressing rooms as others; others need bigger; some have comments to make on others' musicianship or how a particular song ought to be played.

Richard Desmond

#16. I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.

Taika Waititi

#17. Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. In Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door

Charles Dickens

#19. I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.

Richard Desmond

#20. I've been offered a peerage already, and turned it down.

Richard Desmond

#21. Believe people when they tell you who they are. They know themselves better than you.

Maya Angelou

#22. There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.

Ali Vincent

#23. It's great isn't it, all this exercise lark? I used to laugh at people on treadmills; now I love it.

Richard Desmond