Favourite Quotes

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
Groucho Marx

Days, Actually, September

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
Chuck Palahniuk

Find, Almost, Stuff

Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way.
Frank Lampard

Put, Team, Barcelona

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.
Christopher Hitchens

Work, Age, Thought

Vanity is my favourite sin.
Al Pacino

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.
Jimmy Carter

President, Admired, Harry

Tiramisu is my favourite.
Hugh Jackman

My favourite sport is cheerleading!
Miley Cyrus

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.
John Mayer

Mother, Words, Trying

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns

Mind, Struggle, Ready

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.
Maria Sharapova

Love, Trying, Getting

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.
Maria Sharapova

Time, Place, Spend

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
Brian Clough

God, Give, Chair

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'
Christina Ricci

Rejection, Lose, She

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.
John Millington Synge

Men, Different, Another

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
Diane Arbus

Change is one of my favourite words.
Carol Vorderman

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.
Arne Jacobsen

Philosophy, Sitting, Studio

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.
James Buchan

Almost, Top, Reader

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.
David Walliams

Book, Everything, Child

I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.
Ellie Goulding

Love, Pink, Wear

My favourite people to follow on Twitter are... my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.
Ellie Goulding

Laugh, Keep, Follow

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.
Roger Moore

Nice, Place, Excellent

Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.
Julie Burchill

Mine, South, Restless

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.
Saul Williams

Lie, Progress, Social

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'
Sloane Crosley

Christmas, Different, Same

The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.
Drew Carey

Men, Hate, Play

Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.
Roger Moore

Giving, Answer, Asked

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.
Dominic Monaghan

Travel, Enjoy, Getting

I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.
Christopher Nolan

Mind, Try, Write

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