Linda Smith quotes

" And another thing I like about cricket is, because most of the commentators apart from Boycott and Truemen.. are very old-worldy, they have an innocence and naivete about them thay makes them sometimes say, in the course of their commentary, inadvertently rude things. 'Now we're at the start of play.. and we're coming in to play - and the bowler's Holding, the batman's Willey'..'Here we are and we're about to commence play. And there's Simpson, in his usual position - standing with his legs wide open, at first ship.. waiting for a tickle.' (Linda Live, 1993) " # Genius # Love # Action

" My favourite ever headline was "Worksop Man Dies Of Natural Causes". (QI, Episode B.11) " # Advertising # Death and Dying # Nature

" This is Prince Charles & Camilla. Or, as I like to think of them, Rod Hull & Emu. " # Fiction

" I sort of sympathise with them looking for weapons of mass destruction, because I'm like that with scissors. Honestly, I just turn the house upside down. Of course the difference is, I know I have got some scissors. " # Evil # Love # Home

" Piers Morgan who used to be editor of The Mirror. He's got a whole new career now, as the bloke who used to be editor of The Mirror. " # Editing and Editors

" Another panellist (Clive Anderson) suggested, "Don't give him the oxygen of publicity". "I'm not that happy with him having the oxygen of oxygen actually", Linda replied. " # Money # Happiness # Love

" You should always book tradesmen by personal recommendation. " # Books - Reading

" He force fed his daughter with some mechanically recovered beef fragments...on TV to show there was no danger from BSE...She's probably a teenager now. Most teenagers just irrationally hate their parents. You wouldn't want to be round their house of a Christmas...Let's watch that film, when you tried to kill me. Yes I would like a flat, thank you. " # Christmas # Politicians and Politics # Politics

" We've more convenience foods now: instant Instant Whip and of course Instant Tea - so much quicker. Just pour boiling water on Instant Tea. At last! An end to 'pouring boiling water onto a tea bag' misery. I must try and let go of my anger about the wasted years of tea bag drudgery behind me - oh, the time I could have saved! I could have learned languages, pottery.. oh leave it Linda, it's gone, it's gone. I believe Marks and Spencer now market a cup of tea that's already been drunk for you - just a brown ring in a mug. " # Writers and Writing # Anger # Marriage

" On ovarian cancer of which she died, "a Cinderella cancer, it doesn't have the same glamour as breast cancer". " # Stardom # Cancer # Death and Dying