Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don't try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.

Fatherhood, parenthood, is something that completely overwhelms you and absorbs you, and you just have to be the best dad that you can be.

Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

It has been a long time since I could venture into eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me,...

I could never call myself a Chelsea fan. I'm a St Mirren supporter. But after about 35 years of watching St Mirren, I think I'm entitled to go and see what else there is.

My brother and my mother had a really difficult relationship; he would exasperate her to death but she'd always be there for him, she always loved him even if she didn't like him at the moment.

I read Ann Cleeves's books and think the way she paints Shetland is very interesting.

I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.

All I want to do is play. I love the game. I want to show everyone what I can do.

Just remember that if you've lost something, you will be open to something else.

In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress.

Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.

As a kid, I loved to sing along to the Drifters and Otis Redding.

If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded.

Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

I put on the tuxedo, and it's like putting on overalls - they're my work clothes. Then I go to work. I'm relaxed. I do my job.

There are players out there who want to dominate and keep their opponent sitting down. They want to make centuries and win frames at a single visit, and I like to see that.

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the...

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Manscaping and all of that is not my thing. I'm more of the Clint Eastwood kind of guy.

I really liked writing rhyming poems and plays.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

I hate being safe. There's a lot of easy rides and boring films out there, but I've stuck to my guns. It's not an easy path.

I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans.