Quite Quotes · Page 28

I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long…

— Louise Leakey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

— Lena Headey

I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be…

— Amber Le Bon

My comic timing is quite good.

— Sameera Reddy

The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible…

— Gever Tulley

Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.

— Jim Morris

I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.

— Jack Whitehall

I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite…

— Mika

I've always been, since I was a little kid, and my son is quite observant, too.

— Jonny Lee Miller

I'm not totally blind to the fact that I like people to see my work, but if it's not something I would…

— Anton Corbijn

I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional…

— J. G. Ballard

I've got nice feet. I do pay quite a lot of attention to them. I always have.

— Toks Olagundoye

I was big as a kid, very overweight. That caused a lot of insecurities for me growing up, and on top of…

— Deborah Mailman

I quite like androgyny.

— Bat for Lashes

I was quite young when my dad went into politics but, as it went on, I became self-conscious about it.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle.…

— Terry Pratchett

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I…

— Sloane Crosley

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction:…

— Lisa Tuttle

Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me…

— Bat for Lashes

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour,…

— Sid Waddell

As anyone who has read 'Sports Illustrated's Steve Rushin knows, it's quite possible to write an unreadable column without being a TV…

— Stephen Rodrick

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

— John Shirley

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

— Tadanobu Asano

Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They…

— Russell Smith

I'm actually quite a scaredy cat, myself.

— Takashi Miike