Broadcaster Quotes

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.

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.

I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee — especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.

Sometimes it feels like everything is going wrong. Even with the things that are wrong already.

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

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.

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

Gyles Brandreth

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.

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

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

I want the program to be very open and develop in style as time goes on. But I am also interested in the positive aspects of Asian family life and other Asian qualities, although overall, my style is very informal.

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

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)

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.

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

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

Fred W. Friendly

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

George Galloway

Hello Americans, I'm Paul Harvey. You know what the news is — in a minute, you're going to hear the rest of the story.

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

What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

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.

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.

.... 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

What about the people that couldn't get out?! Someday it's gonna happen to you!... You won't have a car, and you won't have a government airplane, and you won't have a cell phone, and you won't have a weapon!... Blaming the victim...