170 Favourite Things Quotes

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Famous Favourite Things Quotes

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases. — Pablo Neruda

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life. — Carla Gugino

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. — Steve Jobs

These are things I love, things I've worn. I get more compliments on accessories than anything else. I think they're kind of like herbs and spices. They give zest and zing to an outfit. — Iris Apfel

My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts. — John the Apostle

I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect. — Frank Iero

What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together — Paul Smith

Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle. - Dale Earnhardt

Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle. — Dale Earnhardt

The things that we love tell us what we are. - Thomas Aquinas

The things that we love tell us what we are. — Thomas Aquinas

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. — Juliet Mills

Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica. — Abraham Lincoln

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it. — Dirk Benedict

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. — Barbra Streisand

I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure. — Zoe Kravitz

I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces. — Cara Delevingne

Short Favourite Things Quotes

  • I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things — Guillermo del Toro
  • The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories. — Mencius
  • Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes — Immanuel Kant
  • I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world. — George Santayana
  • The best things in life are free — Luther Vandross
  • Memories are the best things in life, I think. — Romy Schneider
  • Best things in life aren't things. — Mike Ness
  • Books, Cats, Life is Good. — Edward Gorey
  • I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters. — Lord Thomson of Fleet
  • I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love... — Jimmy Buffett

Favourite Things Image Quotes

Favourite things quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

My Favourite Things Quotes

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way. — Melanie Martinez

I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design. — Paula Scher

Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing; If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully - A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages. Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe! — Ikkyu

Favourite things quote Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.

Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint. — Cy Twombly

I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her. — Aretha Franklin

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio. — Arne Jacobsen

My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable. — Billy Childish

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines. — David Walliams

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident. — Rufus Sewell

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed. — John Lasseter

What Are Favorite Quotes

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. - Unknown Author

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss

My favorite way to learn is to speak to people who are already doing what I want to do. — Jay Shetty

If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd. — Donald Glover

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know. — Steve Irwin

I never really listen to what people say. My thing is that my favorite artists are artists that are theatrical. Obviously when you are doing a recording, things aren't gonna translate as over-the-top. — Adam Lambert

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions. — Stevie Wonder

I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is RuPaul's Drag Race. — Jason Wu

The most bizarre demographics come up to me. Men in their 50s come up to me and are like, "Alison is my favorite. I hated her at first, and now I love her." I don't know what that says about people's psychology. — Tatiana Maslany

My favorite thing to cook is anything that comes out okay. I'm very fond of certain pastas and sauces that I can just about cook from scratch. So those are what I like to cook, as well as roasted potatoes and chicken. Anything that tastes alright. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

Favorites Things Quotes

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. A Fresh Look at Diane Arbus - Diane Arbus

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. A Fresh Look at Diane ArbusDiane Arbus

Nelson Mandela was a hard-core communist mass bomber. His wife says her favorite thing to do is hang tires over children's heads and necklace them. — Alex Jones

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing. — Chris Rock

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school. — Tommy Lee

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult! — Taylor Swift

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. — Diane Arbus

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. — Diane Arbus

Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don't need. When the food pantry and the refrigerator are organized, I feel less stressed. — Jennifer Morrison

I think that's where you get your inspiration from. Your favorite things that you love. — James Murray

Of course my base and my favorite thing is striking, and I will do a lot of striking because I love this game. — Valentina Shevchenko

Favourite Quotes

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day. - Jon Foreman

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day. — Jon Foreman

Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think. — Prince

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. — Eric Cantona

In God we trust; all others bring data. - W. Edwards Deming

In God we trust; all others bring data. — W. Edwards Deming

You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different. — ASAP Rocky

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. — Mark Twain

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. — St. Catherine of Siena

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. — Alfred Armand Montapert

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. — Robert Fortune

Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time. — Janet Street-Porter

Favourite Places Quotes

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world. — Maria Sharapova

After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God. — Eric Cantona

My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little vegetarian restaurant and is really fun and healthy, too. It was the first place I went to in London and really liked. That was 20 years ago, and it is still my favourite. — Sayings

London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas. — Phife Dawg

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters. — Roger Moore

My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake. — Karlie Kloss

Toronto's one of my favourite places. If I were to move anywhere out of California, it would be Toronto. Definitely. — Kendrick Lamar

Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places. — Diego Luna

Toronto is amazing, it's one of my favourite cities to visit. Toronto and Montreal are just super dope places. — G-Eazy

I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there. — Donald Glover

Favourite Songs Quotes

When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break. — Sonu Nigam

I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs. — Dolly Parton

Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to. — Aino Jawo

The man who never reads lives only one. — George R. R. Martin

Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music. — Guy Berryman

I always look at my favourite photographs or favourite movies by James Bidgood or Sofia Coppola before I write my songs - they put me in the right frame of mind. — Charli XCX

I have favourite songs for different things. The diversity of it is the strength. — Immortal Technique

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid. — Richard Hawley

[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover. — Kanye West

I think my favourite song on the album [Second Hand Rapture'] is 'Head Is Not My Home', I love the vocal melody and it's such a power hit of a track. Every time it pops on I like listening to it, I'm really drawn to it. — Lizzy Plapinger

Favorite Foods Quotes

My favorite plant-based food is a grass-fed ribeye. — Mark Sisson

My favorite food is dahl bhat, the only Nepalese food you can eat on all the expeditions. Everyone from the mountaineering community would know this! — Nirmal Purja

My favorite plant-based food is red meat. — Robert Breedlove

The people who give you their food give you their heart. - Cesar Chavez

The people who give you their food give you their heart. — Cesar Chavez

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side. — Hubert H. Humphrey

It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too. — Gail Simmons

Pasta is my favorite comfort food, but sometimes my body really wants a steak, and I'll have one. — Donna Karan

My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey. — Misty May-Treanor

My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic. — Tyler Florence

Mexican food is my absolute, #1 favorite food. But all the cutting and dicing is very time-consuming. I do like to cook a few times a week, but it's not always that intricate with the shells and the cheese, etcetera. — Wendy Williams

My Favourite Quotes

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it. — Jack Handey

My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically. — Jon Richardson

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. — Cullen Hightower

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked. — Dakota Fanning

My favourite city is Miami. It's very fresh and the beach is sunny. - Liu Wen

My favourite city is Miami. It's very fresh and the beach is sunny. — Liu Wen

Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say. — Xavi

When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog. — Patrick Demarchelier

I grew up watching Scooby Doo and Thelma was my favourite character. — MyAnna Buring

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. — Robin Gibb

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on. — Robert Palmer

Favourite Book Quotes

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. — Mark Twain

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them. — Charles Finch

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me. — David Walliams

The things you own end up owning you. — Brad Pitt

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. — Roald Dahl

Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video. — Peter York

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites. — Lord Acton

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.' — Bill Gates

I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far. — Markus Zusak

Favorite Places Quotes

I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places. — Stefon Harris

There's something to be said for useless days. You know, those days when you have nothing to do and all day to do it ... Trust me, a beach and a bottomless drink may not cure the world's problems but it can really get your head in the right place. Those are my favorite kind of days. — Kenny Chesney

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism. — Jodi Rell

Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe. — Andrea Gibson

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! — Jim Rohn

My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming. — Miguel Ferrer

My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean. — Nina Arianda

The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place. — Mata Amritanandamayi

I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good. — Chris Kirkpatrick

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More Favourite Things Quotes

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. — Albert Einstein

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. — George Bernard Shaw

For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits. — Twiggy

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything. — Colin Greenwood

To be perfectly honest, Christ Pratt is one of the greatest human beings I've ever met in my entire life. He really is. Everything about him was my favourite thing. I also really love how tall he is, 'cuz I'm kind of a tall girl and often times when I'm doing a movie I need to slouch, but I could stand tall and proud next to Chris Pratt. — Bryce Dallas Howard

My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive. — Buzz Aldrin

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs. — Victoria Wood

For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film. — Rupert Grint

I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to aim it at you. You do the thing you would love... make the thing you would love and be proud of. There's enough people in the world that, if you do that and do it well as a single vision, they'll go: "That's my favourite thing ever!" — Ricky Gervais

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records. — Brian Wilson

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women. — Kirsty Gallacher

I get along really well with Lars [von Trier] but definitely during our first meetings I was feeling him out and he definitely says some things that are inappropriate and then you kind of get his sense of humour. I really enjoy him. He's one of my favourite people I've met now. So, he's pretty great. — Kirsten Dunst

In fact my favourite thing is the wig because I'm a very lazy actor so every time I put it on, in order to keep it straight, they kept on telling me to tip my head back because otherwise I was eating it all the time. — Jason Isaacs

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful. — Justine Larbalestier

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that. — St. Vincent

I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator. — Alicia Silverstone

I've been called other things too, and some of them uncomplimentary and sexist like the 'Queen of Sprawl', 'Attila the Hen,' 'The Mom who runs Mississauga' and the 'Mississauga Rattler', so it's little wonder that my favourite nickname is Hurricane Hazel. — Hazel McCallion

I love performing, it's my favourite thing to do. I think the music comes across even stronger live. I started performing first, before I started writing or being in the studio. I just love the energy that we can share together, for just one hour or however long it is. We all come together from all walks of life. I know it sounds cheesy. — NAO

When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it. — Clive James

Cooking is one of my favourite things - from going to the market, bringing the stuff home and preparing it, to cleaning the kitchen afterwards. I've lost my figure a few times. There have been moments when I've overeaten, for comfort. But with discipline and hard work, you can get your figure back. — Linda Evangelista

I'm not always the favourite to win, but I still enjoy it. The main thing is that I've planned for it and even if the result isn't great, I know I've done the best I can do. It's being true to, and believing in, yourself. — Jenny Meadows

My favourite movie right now is probably 'Hitch,' a Will Smith thing. — Chris Moneymaker

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been. — Diane Arbus

It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved. — Cliff Richard

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies. — Cameron Crowe

I loved watching theatre, and film, and television. It was a fantastic outlet and my favourite thing to do. I can't remember the decision. It just felt like a completely natural thing... I just completely felt drawn into it and seduced by it all. I found myself going into it. — Hayley Atwell

People are way too hard on themselves. Comparing yourself to other people can be damaging; the most important thing is just to be you and to try to engage with your child. If you're constantly working, so you don't have that much time to spend with them, but you have 20 minutes at the end of the day to read them their favourite book, children will remember that. — Liv Tyler

There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today. — Paul Weller

I don't like it when people ask me what my favourite Beatles song is. I always get that. First of all, I don't like having to pick a favourite thing anyway. You can't pick a favourite Beatles song! What about "Strawberry Fields"? What about "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"? What about "Tomorrow Never Knows"? Come on. That question is small minded to think you could even have a favourite Beatles song. — Kemp Muhl

I love coffee, I love my family, I love being in New Zealand - that's honestly one of my top five favourite things - faith is important to me, and I hope to be married one day. I love that coffee was number one. — Zac Farro

'Big Day Out' is one of our favourite festivals, it's such an eclectic mix of so many different things and it's really about music - which is what a good festival should be about. The reaction from the fans in that part of the world rivals our greatest territories and the kids are always very rabid and very appreciative of us being there, so we're super excited to get back. — Mikey Way

Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months. — Danny Fox

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