Mates Quotes

There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. (Michael Hutchence)
We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells. View quote
Paul McCartney
Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now. View quote
Simon Pegg
Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates. View quote
Helen Fisher
It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, but you need to remember they will always be there for you. View quote
Rachel Bilson
The guy I'd felt such an immediate and deep connection to I'd thought that just maybe there really were such things as soul mates, and had considered, at least for a few brief moments, that he might be mine. View quote
P. C. Cast
I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates. View quote
Brad Delson
People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday. View quote
Casey Stoner
If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008. View quote
Douglas Wilder
I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates. View quote
Gary Numan
If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates. (Imelda Staunton)
I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night. View quote
Luke Treadaway
I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance. View quote
Michael Flatley
I like playing sport. I'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates. View quote
Nick D'Aloisio
As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real. View quote
Robbie Keane
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. View quote
Scott Bakula
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates. View quote
William James
Showbiz is a very strange thing, I've got a love-hate relationship with that. In Liverpool your mates say, ‘You're there, Holly, you're there' but they only see the end product, not what that entails. View quote
Holly Johnson
Doctors is all swabs...and that doctor there, why, what do he know about seafaring men? I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes - what do the doctor know of lands like that? View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The only people that ever made a difference to Billy were the Provos, and they were cunts as well. Ah've no illusions aboot them as freedom fighters. The bastards made ma brar intae a pile ay cat food. But they jist pulled the switch. His death was concieved of by these Orange cunts, comin through every July with thir sashes and flutes, fillin Billy's stupid head with nonsense aboot crown and country and aw that garbage. They'll go home chuffed fae the day. They kin tell aw thir mates aboot how one ay the family died, murdered by the IRA, while defending Ulster. It'll fuel thir pointless anger, get them bought drinks in pubs, and help establish their doss-bastard credibility wi other sectarian arseholes. View quote
Irvine Welsh
Midwinter, and the countryside is so still, it seems almost lifeless. But these trees and bushes and grasses around me are living organisms just like animals. And they have to face very much the same sort of problems as animals face throughout their lives if they're to survive. They have to fight one another, they have to compete for mates, they have to invade new territories. But the reason that we're seldom aware of these dramas is that plants of course live on a different time-scale. (David Attenborough)
If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know? View quote
Jamie Oliver
[Gale and Shapley assumed that each person has] a given ranking [among] potential mates that determines rather than is determined by the equilibrium sorting. View quote
Gary Becker
We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates. View quote
Victoria Beckham
A gene that promotes nurturing behavior postcopulation could... spread throughout the population, to the extent that the offspring of people with the nurturing gene fare better, as a group, in the competition for resources and mates. View quote
Daniel Levitin