Quote by Tony Hawks

“I don't think I recognize you, sir, said Camier. I am Watt, said Watt. As you say, I'm unrecognizable. Watt? said Camier. The name…

— Samuel Beckett

“1 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral May you have no frost on your spuds, No worms on your cabbage. May your goat give plenty of milk. If you…

— Janice Thompson

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from…

— Jonathan Swift

After spending so much time in America, I started travelling with 'In Defence of English Cooking' by George Orwell. It's archaic and old-fashioned in…

— Jamie Hince

“Douglas’s fridge was a stainless-steel masterpiece. I’m not that into appliances or anything, but this one was nice and probably cost more than my…

— Lish McBride

“I carried my pint to a corner table and sat just looking at it for a moment: the head of foam, the tiny bubbles…

— Poppy Z. Brite

“At all times a heavy ceramic casserole would sit on a pale blue Aga, so should people drop in unexpectedly, I could wander out…

— Marian Keyes

“The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato.”

— Bauvard

“IN my early days there were stories about funny refugees murdering the English language. A refugee woman goes to the greengrocer to buy red…

— George Mikes

“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

— James Joyce

Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and…

— Diana Vreeland

“Sir Gerald Moore: I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old child came alone, dragging a little toy cart.…

— Tom Wolfe