Broadcaster Quotes

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

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.

The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.

They ate a pig's anus? Oh, come on. I have to tell you there is nothing there to eat. Is it fair? I think the pig is past caring whether it is fair or not. Look, my view is that any bloody fool can be uncomfortable. I don't go into harrowing circumstances for fun or entertainment. I mean, I am not a hair-shirt guy.

David Attenborough

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.

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

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.

A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.

While the dull talk idly streams,
He sits upon the bank and dreams,
Till some careless word that's said
Finds a fellow in his head...

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Dorothy Thompson

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.

I don't believe in coincidences. I believe that if you're doing the right thing, you are handed back pieces of yourself. It's like something goes right for you and this will keep you going for six weeks, and then your next test is going to be designed for you.

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.

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

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

You will find a blacker world on death row than anywhere else. African-Americans, a mere 11 percent of the national population, compose about 40 percent of the death row population. There, too, you will find this writer.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

All the girls say they love me
all their mums say I'm lovely —
ever since I lived in the clouds.

I cannot believe that it will ever be feasible to send a manned space-ship out beyond the Solar System; my lack of faith in space-warps, time-warps, freezing techniques, and cosmical Noah's Arks is profound, though I am well aware that others do not agree.

[Sir James Goldsmith] has got nothing to be smug about, and I would like to say that 1,500 votes is a derisory total. We have shown tonight that the Referendum Party is dead in the water, and Sir James can get off back to Mexico knowing your attempt to buy the British political system has failed.

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...

.... 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.