Salford Quotes

#1. The first time I saw Giggsy, he was playing for Salford Boys against United's apprentices. He was thin and wiry but he just glided past four of our apprentices as if they weren't even there, then he put the ball in the back of the net. I just thought 'This kid's an absolute natural'

Bryan Robson

#2. Without the Ermen & Engels mill in Salford, owned by Friedrich Engels's textile-manufacturing father, the chronically impoverished Marx might well have not survived to pen polemics against textile manufacturers. Something

Terry Eagleton

#3. If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

Pippa Evans

#4. It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.

Benedict Wong

#5. I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of Salford, a couple of miles from the docks.

Robert Powell

#6. Her mum was talking like the Queen. Well, the Queen's slightly rougher sister from Salford.

Vicky Pattison

#7. People, alas, don't document things with any kind of precision. They fill Twitter with blurry photos.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#8. There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.

Bill James

#9. I'm not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We'll continue to argue the case.

Nicola Sturgeon

#10. I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

Josh Klinghoffer

#11. I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Narendra Modi

#12. I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

Jello Biafra

#13. Speaking professionally, it was admirably done."
-John H. Watson-
-The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes-

Arthur Conan Doyle

#14. The things we do in the name of protecting others are so often attempts to spare some part of ourselves.

Angela Flournoy

#15. Anger was better than fear. Fear was a damp cold mess, but anger had an edge. She could use it.

Terry Pratchett

#16. If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

George Holyoake

#17. I've learned that I don't need much sleep, and that I am able to really stand up for the things that I think that are important and that there are a lot of people out there who agree with me.

Kerry Healey

#18. I've never been in this part of Trenton before. I don't feel comfortable driving around buildings that haven't got gang slogans sprayed on them. Look at this place. No boarded-up windows. No garbage in the gutter. No brothers selling goods on the street. Don't know how people can live like this.

Janet Evanovich

#19. Men confide, lust rhetorically, copulate hypothetically with women of unacknowledged fantasy.

Aleksandar Hemon

#20. You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.

Michelle Hodkin

#21. For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

Frederick Lenz