Ecclestone Bernie Quotes & Sayings

Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them. — Bernie Ecclestone

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this. — Susan Estrich

If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything. — Bernie Ecclestone

The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights ... I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1. — Bernie Ecclestone

He'd stared into her eyes, dark with confusion and unwilling passion, and for one stark, horrible instant, he'd wished to be that different man. He'd wished to be worthy of her. — Anna Campbell

The trouble with climate change is it's an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I'd like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis. — Robert Winston

I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before? — Jeremiah Denton

I leave at half-time; by then you can see which way it's going. If you ask me to name five of our team, I couldn't. There's that guy who scores goals - Taarabt. Routledge I've heard of. All bloody nice guys but I don't mix with them so I don't know them well. I don't go in the dressing room. They can walk out of the showers and I feel I've got an inferiority complex. — Bernie Ecclestone

Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah. This means whatever the outcome of the limbs' striving, the heart will be completely satisfied, knowing that it is the flawless decision of Allah. But in order to reach this level, one must hold on to hope, strive with the limbs, and let go with the heart. — Yasmin Mogahed

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences. — Isabel Allende

Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?
The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.
There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow. — Ilya Ilf

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome. — Bernie Ecclestone

If you say 'Good Morning' in America and it's five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit. — Bernie Ecclestone

Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances. — Bernie Ecclestone

So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropping whelps, they'll be at your ankles one day, big as they are - not the whelps, the breasts. The whelps will be in your hair - no, not the shiny hair on your head, well, yes, that hair, but only as a manner of speech. — Steven Erikson

I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash. — Bernie Ecclestone

People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away. — Bernie Ecclestone

What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us and hug him close to our bosoms tillhe has gnawed into our hearts? — Voltaire

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist. — Bernie Ecclestone

I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions. — Susan Cain

It's not God who doesn't care, it's us — Frank Warren

They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport. — Bernie Ecclestone

When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don't want it built like that. It's quite embarrassing. — Bernie Ecclestone

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to — Bernie Ecclestone

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is. — Bernie Ecclestone