Victoria Coren Mitchell Famous Quotes and Saying

MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.

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If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.

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The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in.

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feeling you nature flower

I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad.

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zoo sad complicated relationship

Driving a car is no longer about zooming down clear lanes, the joy and freedom of the road flowing through your hair like a fine westerly breeze. It's about solid traffic, petrol fumes, spy cameras, eco-guilt, and simultaneous social media.

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social-media car freedom hair

After a bath, we all love to dry off with a towel. But do we need it to survive? No. It's a luxury.

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bath survive luxury love

Casino games such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines and so on, are stacked in favour of the house.

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casino machines games house

Nature made your eyebrows like that for a reason. I don't know the reason. Some people say it's to do with keeping rain out of monkeys' eyes. Whatever. The point is, if you try to redesign your eyebrows with tweezers and pens, it will look terrible.

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eyes you nature rain

I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.

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too contact vain glasses

When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns.

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milestones drive thought learning

People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes.

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bad good people world

Weight gain is good because it makes your dresses tight. This is not necessarily classy or flattering, but it means you don't have to iron anything.

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classy your good you

Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them.

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women comedy fear funny

I grew up near London Zoo, with which I was obsessed. I would lie in bed at night, thinking about the lions and tigers and wolves that were prowling only a few miles away.

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wolves lie night thinking

I've always hated the idea of carrying grudges and resentments around like a load of mouldy suitcases.

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grudges like always hated

I like the fact that the weather forecast is always wrong. In a world of BlackBerry insta-connection, Google research, and Hadron Colliders, it is a daily reminder of the ultimate ignorance of man. It is a signpost towards all the enormous things we cannot understand.

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daily man weather world

You will enjoy the TV and radio forecast much more if you stop taking it as advice and simply treat it as a short poem about the weather.

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treat you enjoy weather

It is impossible to identify a nice scent from within the chemical cloud of a perfume department.

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cloud perfume nice impossible

If you are actually ordinary, the only way to give royal status meaning is to live an extraordinary life. It can't be jeans and burgers and granny doing the babysitting.

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live you life way

I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression.

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sense bossy honest art

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MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.

If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.

The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in.

I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad.

Driving a car is no longer about zooming down clear lanes, the joy and freedom of the road flowing through your hair like a fine westerly breeze. It's about solid traffic, petrol fumes, spy cameras, eco-guilt, and simultaneous social media.

After a bath, we all love to dry off with a towel. But do we need it to survive? No. It's a luxury.

Casino games such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines and so on, are stacked in favour of the house.

Nature made your eyebrows like that for a reason. I don't know the reason. Some people say it's to do with keeping rain out of monkeys' eyes. Whatever. The point is, if you try to redesign your eyebrows with tweezers and pens, it will look terrible.

I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.

When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns.

People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes.

Weight gain is good because it makes your dresses tight. This is not necessarily classy or flattering, but it means you don't have to iron anything.

Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them.

I grew up near London Zoo, with which I was obsessed. I would lie in bed at night, thinking about the lions and tigers and wolves that were prowling only a few miles away.

I've always hated the idea of carrying grudges and resentments around like a load of mouldy suitcases.

I like the fact that the weather forecast is always wrong. In a world of BlackBerry insta-connection, Google research, and Hadron Colliders, it is a daily reminder of the ultimate ignorance of man. It is a signpost towards all the enormous things we cannot understand.

You will enjoy the TV and radio forecast much more if you stop taking it as advice and simply treat it as a short poem about the weather.

It is impossible to identify a nice scent from within the chemical cloud of a perfume department.

If you are actually ordinary, the only way to give royal status meaning is to live an extraordinary life. It can't be jeans and burgers and granny doing the babysitting.

I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression.

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