Broadcaster Quotes

Bruce Dickinson

David Attenborough

Patrick Moore

Kenneth Clark

John Betjeman

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Jeremy Clarkson

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

Humphrey Carpenter

People have accused me of being so far up Tiger's arse that he can barely make a full swing, but I maintain that he is a special person.

I'm proud to say I've made a career out of being trivial. I think it's an art form.

Janet Street-Porter

Free speech – proper, full-blooded free speech – is the lifeblood of any progressive politics and of any progressive transformation of society. If we treasure the one, we must treasure the other.

.... well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat

Food can comfort. But when you've just lost someone you love you don't want that to be the case. When my mother died some people came up to me and said, "You'll get over it." That felt like such an assault to me.

I don't know very many people who were able to say at a young age, "I'm going to do this" and do it, and it just kind of all went that way. It's pretty much unpredictable and a random path. You can't really control the circumstances of your life, you can only control what you do with it, how you react, how you respond, how you hold it. … What I do control is what I do with what happens, and I try to keep a positive attitude, not always easy, and I try to focus on what my mission, core mission is. And that helps you more than anything else if you know what your mission is.

There are people who go to the Hague for war crimes – I tell you this, some of the coaches nowadays should be up for crimes against Gaelic football.

The earth has a mass of 5.97 x 1024 kilograms... a big number and one that really matters because that is all the matter we have got.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Alastair Campbell

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

If we could just get people to be nice to their babies for five years straight, that would be it for war, drug abuse, addiction, promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases,... Almost all would be completely eliminated, because they all arise from dysfunctional early childhood experiences, which are all run by women

Stefan Molyneux

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Fred W. Friendly

I suppose that if your name is Freud, it is better to be related to Sigmund than not. It must be frustrating to have to keep denying family connection.

The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.

Charles Templeton

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

The rules are different for you and always will be; that you must be composed at all times and never scrap in the muck laid down by your opponents because your moral purity is measured differently to theirs.

Clementine Ford (writer)

Nowadays Mitchum doesn't so much act as point his suit at people.

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.

Does anyone really imagine for a moment that my wife gives two stuffs about global warming? She certainly did not appear to be all that bothered on Thursday evening when, during the great carbon-saving switch-off, I ran round the house furiously turning on every light, hair dryer, dishwasher and toaster.

Jeremy Clarkson

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?

Gyles Brandreth

(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

On his knowledge of popular music:

I'm blessed with total recall, except about where I left my umbrella.

Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.

Richard Hammond