Quite Quotes · Page 29

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

— Anonymous

I do travel quite and bit and so going to the gym can get tricky at times.

— Denise Bidot

It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top.

— Bode Miller

I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

— Ramon Rodriguez

I'm not a huge spender. In fact, some things I'm quite stingy on.

— Michaela Strachan

I have to admit that I get quite emotional listening to the amazing talent that exists in the New York subways.

— Lisa O'Hare

I'm not going to have any more children. I'm quite confident about that.

— Jack Monroe

When you make a film, you never quite know what you're getting into.

— Greg Sestero

It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you…

— Alice Oswald

It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go…

— Jefferson Mays

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which…

— John Caudwell

I had been watching 'Home and Away' for quite a while, so joining the cast was quite weird. The show is so…

— Indiana Evans

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should…

— Gemma Arterton

I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in…

— Polly Walker

Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation…

— Craig Brown

I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a…

— Kim Cattrall

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to…

— Michael Haneke

The irony is that we're really good at comedy in Britain, but for some reason, we make very few comedy films. And…

— Alice Lowe

The thing that attracted me to acting the most was I always felt quite unsure or insecure as a kid, and for…

— Christie Laing

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to…

— Michael Giles

My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy…

— Luke Harding

It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away…

— Martin Seligman

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful…

— Carol Windley

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

— Meg Rosoff

There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.

— Franz Wright

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

— Max Hastings

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

— Simon Travaglia

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

— Colin Mochrie

Most of the stuff I've done is quite serious, so I'm usually studious.

— Suranne Jones

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

— Bobby Seale

I struggled quite a long time with my backhand, which was one of my best weapons before my surgery.

— Marco Chiudinelli

I haven't quite mapped it out yet, but working out and training is my lifestyle.

— Marquise Goodwin

“Every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.”

— Ian McEwan

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

— Jack Whitehall

In the '80s, the brand-endorsement market was quite nascent.

— Sridevi

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to…

— Jennifer Westfeldt

This is something that's been on my radar for quite some time actually, voice acting.

— Big E

The Undertaker's beaten me down pretty bad quite a few times.

— Jeff Hardy

I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a…

— Louise Nurding