Carol Vorderman Quotes

It's a very strange situation to be in when you have pictures of you topless everywhere and people thrusting them in your face all time.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.

I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

My career got sidetracked after fighting Holmes.

Nude scenes aren't fun.

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.

Byron Saxton is creepy. He has a relationship between me and him going on in his head. I'm not included in this personally - like, I am, but I'm not. He has a weird fetish with my feet: he loves to call me different kinds of names, like 'Samoan Sweetcake' and 'Twinkle Toes.' It goes on from there.

Who wants their life and everything they have done for the past 25 years dragged in front of the American public?

I would rather a sex tape make its way out than a video of me doing all of the different grunt sounds. I'm not eager for a sex tape to leak, but in terms of personal humiliation, I'd feel less vulnerable to be in a Kim Kardashian situation than seeing myself grunting in a booth.

I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

[Sex] is really awkward. You know you have expectations and then it's this great moment of connection and it's a surprise. But that's what so exciting about it is that sense of surprise.

You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.

I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.

Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.