#si

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#boring #boring thing #bothered #earth #every

I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#consider #doing #i #just #just because

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#father #found #having #i #left

One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#ate #bag #chicken #cooked #cried

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#another woman #basically #been #career #ever

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#because #brother #brother and sister #family #father

Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.' ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#am #bottom #changed #far #go

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#men #name #nerves #only #pessimism

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are? ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#basic #invite #just #presidents #question

Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#agent #am #assigned #clearly #current