Paul O’Grady Quotes

• I don’t live with people—that’s why my relationships last. I’m not romantic. Even when I was a teenager, if somebody asked if they could hold my hand, I’d say, “No, it’s not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you”.
• Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.
• I think it’s bad for fellas when they lose their mothers. Mine was such a character. Oh, it was sad, really sad. And with her gone, the family home was gone, so what was left of any roots I had were completely dug up.
• You can draw the character out of pets and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.
• I do count my blessings. I have had two heart attacks, and if I get to 60 that would be amazing. I don’t fear anything nowadays. There has to be an angel out there.
• I think 65 is a state of mind—until I look in the mirror and realise that the state of mind has been lying to me all day.
• It’s never ceased to amaze me how I got here. Sometimes when you sit and have a think, as I do about three in the morning when I’m writing, I might make a cup of tea and I think, how weird, me arriving at Victoria Coach Station with hardly any money, to this. How did I get here? I feel like I’ve stepped through the looking glass, I really do. I never take it for granted.
• The Catholic church has no right to wag the finger at gay people. How can we respect a church that has encouraged paedophiles by moving them from one parish to another, free to carry on again.

June Brown Quotes

• Old people are considered worthless fuddy-duddies and often overlooked, which makes them sink into loneliness. I noticed it as soon as I started to age.
• I’m too old for surgery. Is it worth it, to look good in your coffin?
• You’ve got to laugh in the face of disappointment.
• I can’t say my life has been dominated by tragedy. I refuse to accept that. I’ve had less than some, more than others.
• I think that’s why a lot of people are very lonely and get ill when they’re older, because I think loneliness and having no motivation, nothing to work towards… I think it kills you.
• I’ve had tragedy in my life, but I think that gives me a depth that I can bring to my work.
• I’m not bragging but I used to be rather beautiful, with lovely legs, and people would always ask me to dance. But suddenly people didn’t take any notice of me anymore. I was at a party in my 50s and was forced to dance with a chair because nobody wanted to dance with me.
• I would be happy if I were Jesus. I’d like to fix everyone else’s problems more than my own.
• It’s much easier for me to cry and do all those things on the stage than in real life.
• Characters can get under your skin when you play them for a long time.

Betty White Quotes

• You can lie to anyone in the world and even get away with it, perhaps, but when you are alone and look into your own eyes in the mirror, you can’t sidestep the truth. Always be sure you can meet those eyes directly.
• It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon, you can find the humour in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
• I know unless I’m true to myself I couldn’t be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.
• People have told me, “Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends…” At my age, If I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I’d need a ouija board.
• I was blessed with a mother and father who said taste the good stuff now and realise how fortunate and how wonderful things are this minute because enough minutes are not wonderful that you have to save up all the good ones to make it balance out.
• One thing they don’t tell you about growing old—you don’t feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it’s true. I don’t feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.
• You know people who are already saying, “I’m going to be 30, oh, what am I going to do?” Well, use that decade! Use them all!
• My exercise: I have a two-storey house and a very bad memory, so I’m up and down those stairs.
• I’ve always liked older men. They’re just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age, there aren’t that many left.
• Why do people say, “Grow some balls”? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding!
• If one is lucky enough to be blessed with good health, growing older shouldn’t be something to complain about. It’s not a surprise; we knew it was coming—make the most of it. So, you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game.
• You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on any animal.

The 100 Season 4 Quotes

Kane:

• You turn the page and you don’t look back. You do better today than you did yesterday. You understand? Before you know it, we’ll deserve to survive.
• Taking a life should never be easy. I hope it’s not easy for you. Your humanity is your greatest strength. Sometimes we need a different kind of strength. We need to survive. Then we can all find our humanity again.
• Who you want to be doesn’t always win.
• You can’t save someone who doesn’t want to be saved.

Jaha:

• We make the best decisions that we can with the information that we have, then hope that there’s a forgiving God.
• You saw that we have to give them something to fight for. We can’t tell people they have no value.

Jasper:

• I don’t want us to survive, I want us to live.
• You’re not God, Clarke. You don’t get to decide who lives or dies.
• Too many funerals, too little time.
• What is the point in beating yourself up over all the crappy things you’ve done? You did them! And don’t say you had reasons because at the end of the day, at the end of the world, nobody gives a damn about your reasons, because they are your reasons. No matter how much you punish yourself, it’s not gonna change anything. It’s not gonna bring anyone back. The way I see it is we can spend our last days wallowing in our reasons, or we can do—do whatever the hell we want! Really mean it this time!
• We’re all gonna die, Bellamy. We can go out like them or like us. The ending’s the same, but who says the journey has to suck?

Bellamy:

• If you’re wrong and there is a hell… then I guess I’ll see you there.

Luna:

• What if the fight is all we are? We torture, kill, betray. We pretend we’re more than that just to make ourselves feel better, but it’s a lie.
• Do you really think you deserve to be saved?
• Is there no line you won’t cross in order to survive?

Murphy:

• I’ve never met a line I wouldn’t cross.
• I think peace is overrated. It’s the fighters that survive.

Monty:

• Who are you? When did you become this person?
• What’s with the “we’re all going to die” face?

Octavia:

• The sword doesn’t care what you meant. It just cuts.
• Everyone’s guilty of something.
• Darkness is all we have left.

Emori:

• I was cast out of my clan as an infant because of this. I was forced to steal to survive. Forced to kill. You were loved. Told you were special. I was thrown away like someone’s garbage. You know nothing of my pain.

Abby:

• If I take a life to find a cure, does that make me a murderer?
• We need you. And not just for the hundreds of things we know you can fix, but for the thousands we haven’t even thought of yet.

Harper:

• Do I have to spell it out for you? You’re not enough to make me want to live. And I am not worth dying for. Save yourself. Let the rest of us go.

The 100 Season 3 Quotes

Murphy:

• Pain, hate, envy. Those are the ABCs of me. You get rid of them and there’s nothing left.

Lexa:

• What you’ve done haunts you. And it’s easier to hate me than to hate yourself.
• So blood must not have blood applies only when it is my people who bleed?

Emerson:

• I don’t want mercy. I want revenge. I want you to suffer the same way that I’ve suffered. You can kill me, Clarke. You can never escape what you did. My pain is today. Yours has just begun.

Octavia:

• We all die. You can either do that here feeling sorry for yourself, or you come back with me and get your revenge. The choice is yours.
• The warrior doesn’t mourn the dead until the war is over.

Bellamy:

• What do you do when you realise you might not be the good guy?

Luna:

• The path of violence is a choice.
• You believe that to defeat an enemy who will stop at nothing, you must stop at nothing. How’s that different than ‘blood must have blood’?

The 100 Season 2 Quotes

Wells:

• Your life can be more than just impossible decisions and a tragic end. You can choose to live.

Dante:

• She couldn’t stop looking for enemies when she was around friends.

Lincoln:

• We’ve all got a monster inside of us, Clarke, and we’re all responsible for what it does when we let it out.
• If death has no cost, life has no worth. That’s how we live.

Clarke:

• The things we have done to survive – they don’t define us.
• You say feelings makes me weak, but you’re weak by hiding from them.
• Maybe life should be about more than just surviving. Don’t we deserve better than that?

Jaha:

• Good can come out of even the darkest acts.
• Sometimes you have to sacrifice the few to save the many.
• If it’s not your time, nothing can kill you.

Kane:

• Being a good leader means knowing which battles to fight.

Abby:

• You crossed a line. Their blood is on your hands. And even if we win, I’m afraid you won’t be able to wash it off this time.
• After everything we’ve done, do we even deserve to survive?
• Maybe there are no good guys.

Steve Irwin Quotes

• I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
• When I talk to the camera, mate, it’s not like I’m talking to the camera, I’m talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me.
• If something ever happens to me, people are gonna be like, ‘we knew a croc would get him!’
• Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.
• My job, my mission, the reason I’ve been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife.
• If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.
• We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.
• The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.
• I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet and it’s something that I can’t help.
• I have no fear of losing my life. If I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, I will save it.
• Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

The 100 Season 1 Quotes

 Bellamy:

• Slay your demons when you’re awake; they won’t be there to get you when you sleep.
• Who we are and who we need to be to survive are two very different things.
• Let the grounders come. We’ve been afraid of them for too long. And why? Because of their knives and spears? I don’t know about you, but I’m tired for being afraid.

 Jaha:

• And we hereby commit these souls to the deep… who at their last, gave all to the world of the living. May they be remembered forever. Until there is no more pain, no more suffering, and the abyss itself shall give up her dead and return them to us.
• We are on the Titanic and there aren’t enough lifeboats.

 Raven:

• You’re the most beautiful broom in a broom closet of brooms.

 Monty:

• I can’t change the tide if the moon won’t cooperate.
• I’m pretty sure I ate a pine cone because it told me to.

 Clarke:

• You may be a total ass half the time, but I need you; we all need you. None of us would’ve survived this place if it wasn’t for you. You want forgiveness? Fine, I’ll give it to you. You’re forgiven, okay? But you can’t run, Bellamy. You have to come back with me. You have to face it.
• You’re putting a lot of faith in a guy who stuck a knife in you.
• I can’t believe we survived a hundred years just so we could slaughter each other. There must be another way.

 Finn:

• If we weren’t at war already, we sure as hell are now.
• Learn from history instead of repeating it, right?
• Dying in a fight you can’t win isn’t brave, Bellamy. It’s stupid.

Aretha Franklin Quotes

• If a song’s about something I’ve experienced or that could’ve happened to me, it’s good. But if it’s alien to me, I couldn’t lend anything to it. Because that’s what soul is all about.
• Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, it’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.
• We all require and want respect – man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.
• People really don’t have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.
• You can’t define a person on just one thing. You can’t just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn’t come off the way you thought it should come off.
• Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don’t, it hurts even more.
• If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody’s supposed to respect you?

George H W Bush Quotes

“I’m not a very good one to give advice, but just don’t let the critics discourage you or push you off course.”

“In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In all things, generosity.”

“I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.”

“Be bold in your caring, be bold in your dreaming and above all else, always do your best.”

“Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth.”

“We are not the sum of our possessions.”

“Every loss of life is terrible.”