Chuffed British Slang Quotes & Sayings

They drive back home to grab his backpack and as he bends and kisses his grandma Agnes, she scrunches a one-hundred-dollar bill in his hand. "Buy yourself some chocolates, Tom."
It's what she'd say to him as a kid with a twenty cent coin. — Melina Marchetta

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double. — Jennifer Tilly

Emotional entanglements are messy. And if I don't get involved, I don't have to worry about getting hurt. -SHAYE — Gena Showalter

It's incredible how someone can look so right and feel so wrong. Kent is a lucky bastard. — Tahereh Mafi

I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.' — Shirley Strickland

Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance. — Osamu Dazai

[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you. — Dylan Moran

Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget. — Russell Baker

A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances. — Lorrie Moore

Landry, I'm free. Well, I'll be free as soon as I tell my mom I quit. Or, as free as I can be with my heart chained to yours. — Megan Erickson

Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option. — Warren Bennis

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw. — Michael Crichton

On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest, here no more than an irregular pile of dirt partly flattened by the last pass of a lawnmower. Winged queens and males are taking off on their nuptial flight, protected by angry-looking workers that run up and down the grass blades and out onto the blistering-hot concrete of the sidewalk. The species is unmistakably Solenopsis geminata, the native fire ant. — E. O. Wilson

There are some things," he said softly, "that a princess has to do alone. — Anne Fortier

I'm not great with breathing, like holding notes. I usually don't. A lot of people wouldn't believe it, but I don't focus on technical stuff ... — Jazmine Sullivan