Quite Quotes · Page 43

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

— Emily Atack

I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.

— Dan Aykroyd

The people who are interested in my work - they're quite far-out.

— Tino Sehgal

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.

— Michael Davis

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

— Oliver Tambo

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

— Ed Sheeran

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

— Stanley Tucci

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

— Johnny Vegas

I find that a lot of the good acting comes out when you're physically being pushed: your brain turns off and just…

— Emilia Clarke

The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and…

— Margaret Heffernan

Unless I really make an effort, I quite enjoy looking a bit off and something looking a bit wrong. That's how I…

— Suki Waterhouse

I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

It's hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It's been diluted quite a bit. It is a…

— Franklin Graham

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary…

— Matthew Quick

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and…

— Anonymous

I went through a stage of wearing quite lairy trainers. I had all these trainers in gold or pink or silver. I…

— James Corden

I'm quite certain the Windows 8 team is preparing to market IE 10 - and by extension, Windows 8 - as the…

— John Battelle

I remember working with Ray Charles when I was quite young, and I would wonder, 'Why would he sing 'Georgia On My…

— Merry Clayton

When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they…

— Pat Barker

I'm an American designer. It's important to riff on that. I remember, when my mom and I first came to the States,…

— Jason Wu

When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle.…

— Randy Houser

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big…

— Lawrence Kasdan

One of the unique features of China is that, notwithstanding the fact that it has a population of 1.3 billion, around 92%…

— Martin Jacques

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That…

— Huston Smith

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

— Quentin Blake

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

— George Stephen

I think, in Denmark, we are quite good when it comes to the environment.

— Peter Schmeichel

I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

— Edmund White

Generally, I'm quite chilled about my looks, but I'm gutted if my skin's bad.

— Stacey Dooley

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

— Lesley Manville

I was quite successful as a make-up artist for 23 years, doing a lot of prosthetics.

— Dave Myers

There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning.

— Phyllis Logan

It's quite an honor to be selected to represent my country in the Olympics.

— John Stockton

My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

— India de Beaufort

I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.

— Jason Alexander

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

— Patricia Hewitt

The accuracy of Wikipedia can be dodgy in some places, but in maths, it's really quite good.

— Terence Tao

I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

— Raza Jaffrey

I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.

— Anton Corbijn