Carl Honore Quotes

Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

Carl Honore

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JourneyTimeCultureTravelBoat

We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.

Jo Brand

WomenShoesMeFeetYouLook

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Joely Richardson

AlwaysWhateverUpSkinnyBeen

Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator.

Melvyn Bragg

ControlCuriosityLike

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

Robert Metcalfe

WordsLiteratureChooseWrite

In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.

Tracy Morgan

LoveHeartCareLongYouSex

I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.

Ron Perlman

CharacterPressureFatDownLost

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Russell Baker

ProgressSocietyDoneThingsJust

People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'

Russell Crowe

PerspectiveWarPeopleBetterSay

I believe that there is God in all of us.

Michael Landon

GodBelieveI BelieveUs

Everybody gets through a phase where it's, 'Ah, if I could just sound just like Vince Gill.' Then you figure out that you have your own voice, whether you like it or not, and that's what you should stick with.

Chris Stapleton

VoiceYouSoundOutThroughOwn

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

Anne Lamott

FlowerMotherSonEyesFindAlways

Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it's extremely difficult to do that. And very few people today actually read those serious news stories on the Web now.

Pierre Omidyar

TodayPeopleStoryNewsSeriousNow

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