Quotes About Author

I'm at Stoke, I'm enjoying it, it's not my fault and I shouldn't be discriminated against just because who I play for.

Stoke City gave me the opportunity to play in the most competitive league in the world, and I have only words of gratitude for their trust and for the way they have treated me.

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

Fighting Anderson Silva was a signature and career-defining moment that was stolen from me.

I began my career as the switchboard operator at 'Rolling Stone.'

The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group... Sly and the Family Stone, led by Sly Stewart from San Francisco.

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

'Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, so I was extending it from the article, and by that time, everyone could read the article.

I read 'Sabella or The Blood Stone' by Tanith Lee, which was hugely influential to me. I love Tanith's writing. She's just really lyrical, beautiful use of language.

I love Stone Cold. It's a weird obsession, and he should probably get a restraining order.

The A tour has always given me an opportunity to prove myself in the higher league as this is the stepping stone.

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

I have a T-shirt that says Game of Stones, which has the Flintstones dressed as 'Game of Thrones' characters on it.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

I'm not Catholic, but I have a great deal of respect for Pope John Paul. I think that he has stood firm on the moral issues, and I admire him greatly.

The encounters I had were very few, but they were powerful. The negative encounters I've had with law enforcement were very few, but they stood out.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

I don't have power or money and one-sided media support or the inclination to stoop to any level for the sake of power.

If I talk about my personal issues, they say it is to promote my film. I'm not that desperate that I need to stoop down to such levels to promote my films.