Kevin McCloud Quotes

Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma.

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Live
  • Country
  • America

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Words
  • Me
  • Songwriting

• Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Moment

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Home
  • Dream
  • You

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Trust
  • Body
  • Better

• Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Trying

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Fun
  • Period
  • Challenges

• When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Ride
  • Egypt
  • Outsider

• Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Life
  • Poverty

• The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Love
  • Home
  • Food

• I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Business
  • Death

• I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Mother
  • Wife

• I hate the idea of people thinking that I'm just a little girl who goes into studios with pop producers, and they work their magic.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• New Orleans is New Orleans. It's a great city and fun and great food. It's one of those cities that when you are working hard hours like we work, you have to do as much as possible to stay out of trouble. Not much of a problem for me, but in New Orleans, trouble tries so much to find you.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • Work
  • Great
  • Fun

• If I eat something a little crazy or if I feel sluggish, I know I have to eat better the next day and work out. I work out, I do circuit training so I try to keep my heart rate up whether I'm doing cardio, lifting weights or jumping rope. I like to mix it up. I also take Zumba classes - I love those, those are a blast.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Up
  • Work
  • Heart

• If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.

  

  P. K. Page
  • Time
  • Work
  • Art

• Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma.

  

  Kevin McCloud
  • Work