Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Catton

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.

Christopher Masterson

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

Rebecca Stead

I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot!

Asif Kapadia

I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

Eleanor Catton

I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.

Chris Riddell

The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!

Kevin McCloud

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

Ellie Goulding

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

Freida Pinto

I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.

A. E. Housman

Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the larks so high / About us in the sky.

Nathalie Kelley

I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.

Pierre Coubertin

The six colours, including the white background, represent the colours of all the world's flags... this is a true international emblem.

Colm Feore

I've worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn't really help because it creates a false sense of specialness about the thing.

James Wolfensohn

We regret that there were those whose sole purpose was destruction, which coloured the currents outside these buildings.

Stan Brakhage

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

Dieter Rams

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

Stevie Smith

Colours are what drive me most strongly.

Roger Penrose

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.