Quotes

I have a blessed life. I do a job that I really love and I have a really good close-knit network of friends and family.

I ended up at Durham School, which was lovely, then Trinity College Cambridge.

What I loved about Radio 3 back in the olden days, when it didn't give a toss about the youth, were the silences - socking great caesuras just left blank for quiet reflection.

I'd love a rule to be introduced that you can only ring up and complain about a programme if you can prove you've watched the whole programme.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

I would stay two years in San Francisco, then move to New York in the summer of 1991, for the love of a man who lived there. When I arrived in New York, I had a job waiting for me, courtesy of a bookstore I'd worked at in San Francisco, A Different Light. They had a New York store as well, and arranged an employee transfer.

I loved being a soprano. It was one of my very favorite things in life, and thus far, and losing that voice was a profound emotional moment for me in my life. I never became that interested in my adult male singing voice.

I was in love with a girl in my class when I was in primary school, and she obviously thought I was a freak, so that wasn't working out. And the the guys in my class, every two weeks they'd say, 'Hey, we spoke to her, and she really likes you now. You should go and ask her again.' And then I'd go and ask her again.

I love generally being out in nature. It is just so amazing.

No amount of success is worth it to me if I can't share it with someone I love.

I loved Bernard Cornwell's books.

I just love the idea of being able to have a place where friends and family can meet, where you can raise everything from chickens to llamas, and, you know, have an artist residency.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

I love the sport. I don't have to work. It's a kind of work we're doing, but if you can do what you love every day, that means something.

I'm just a dog person. I love my dogs.

If I wasn't into MMA, I would definitely love to get into motocross. That is a much tougher sport.

It's hard to just go one day from another to being one of the best fighters in the world to just stop doing what you love to do.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world.

I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.

I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.