Paxman Best Quotes & Sayings

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day. — Ian Fleming

Gavin, I never thought you'd be the irrational one in this relationship, but I'm happy to report that you've just thoroughly shocked me."
He rolled to his side to lean on his arm, keeping my hand resting on his chest, buried underneath his shirt. "I know. My timing is impeccable." He smirked, letting his hungry gaze drift over my body. "But I'm sorry, love. I cannot take seeing you all tucked up in this sexy corset anymore. The ties are so tight, they're just begging me to undo them." His fingers trailed over the top of my chest and down over the corset's binding, tugging at the edges of the lace as he went. "Forcefully," he winked. — Rachael Wade

[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets. — Jeremy Paxman

I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face. — Jeremy Paxman

To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I want to live only for ecstasy. I'm neurotic, perverted, destructive, fiery, dangerous - lava, inflammable, unrestrained. — Anais Nin

I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods. — Jeremy Paxman

Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity. — Jeremy Paxman

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are. — Jeremy Paxman

I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks. — Jeremy Paxman

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect. — Jeremy Paxman

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you? — Jeremy Paxman

I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC?s coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago. — Jeremy Paxman

It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired. — Jeremy Paxman

All I want is to be by your side. When you are not around, I feel time passes too slowly. But when I have you with me, time seems like flying. — Auliq Ice

I got fed up of listening to bollocks — Jeremy Paxman

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly. — Jeremy Paxman

I find it odd that people take me seriously. — Jeremy Paxman

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery. — Jeremy Paxman

This past Halloween girls across the country dressed up as Ronda Rousey. That's because she's an amazing, beautiful, and powerful woman. — Ronda Rousey

I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected. — Jeremy Paxman

Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda. — Donald Rumsfeld

... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it... the most corrosive part of this amnesia is a sense that because the nation is not what it was, it can never be anything again. — Jeremy Paxman

School will always be there, Life won't — Jasmine J. Anderson

Let me go, let me go. — Clara Barton

12 Life is short. Buy the shoes. - INSPIRATIONAL POSTER — Darynda Jones

I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained. — Washington Allston

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer. — Jeremy Paxman

What about you, this week? First you completely ignore me like some Hitler Youth ice-maiden, then you turn into an irresistible sex kitten, looking at me over the computer with not so much 'come-to-bed' as just 'come' eyes, and now suddenly you're Jeremy Paxman." We — Helen Fielding

The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society? — Jeremy Paxman

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them. — Jeremy Paxman

Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there? — Jeremy Paxman

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing. — Jeremy Paxman

At last someone takes me seriously. — Jeremy Paxman

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward. — Jeremy Paxman

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth. — Jeremy Paxman

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots. — Jeremy Paxman

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero. — Sanaa Lathan

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil? — Jeremy Paxman