Michael Parkinson Quotations

He was very shy. A man uneasy with the fame that came with the job. A man who liked to observe in the shade. He reminded me of Alec Guinness in that sense. But, my word, when he stood centre stage you'd better watch him.

He was very shy, a man uneasy with the fame that came with the job.

He was hugely talented and had a regard for the written word. He had a writer's judgement about what did and didn't work. He was not invented by television. He was the finished article when he appeared on television.

I've been trying to get sober for the last four years, and I keep falling off and I keep getting back on,

a bloody good comedian and a lovely man.

It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.

Students recognized that this would help them; we didn't have to tell them.

It'll be good. You put in your requests and hope that one day he'll say yes.

If the music industry has decided I'm influential, then that's their business, ... They tell me that's the case, but I think it would ruin an innocent mind if I were aware of that.

He's our biggest repository of useless knowledge. National Icon, National Treasure, and National Dustbin.

It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality.

Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

I'm very fond of piano players.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.

I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.

When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.

No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.