Top 315 Strictly Quotes

2018 has been such a fantastic year for me: working on some hard-hitting documentaries, as well as ‘Strictly,’ has been a real treat.

Strictly by the nature of ‘Veep,’ in any given moment, a lot can go wrong.

Baseball and golf have a lot of things in common, including the fact that players in both games love hitting for power. However, in both sports, trying to do so strictly with muscle strength doesn’t work very well. In fact, I see a lot of guys in both baseball and golf struggle when they try to swing with tight arms.

I think whoever does sign up to ‘Strictly,’ I feel like it’s such an amazing show because they want to be there.

‘Confederate,’ in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It’s a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could, whether it were a historical drama or a contemporary drama.

I’m obsessed with ‘Wicked’, and I’d love to play Nala in ‘The Lion King’. Some of the songs from ‘The Lion King’ are performed in my native tongue, so when the cast performed an extract from the show in ‘Strictly’ in the language I grew up with, it made me cry.

When I use the Internet, it’s pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people’s web sites, what’s going on, listening to music. It’s pretty much a musical thing for me.

There’s a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

I don’t feel that I’m strictly Danish; I don’t feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.

I’m strictly a sugar-free Red Bull guy. I’d rather enjoy my sugar intake elsewhere.

The CDU was a party that united different denominational and ideological currents. If the idea of a rightward shift means that we ignore those roots and only define ourselves as a conservative party, then I am strictly opposed.

I don’t work very hard. I dye myself orange and I read out loud in the months from September to December when ‘Strictly’ is on.

I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.

Strictly?’ That’s for older people, I watch ‘X Factor.’

Fingerprint matching is – you know the whole thing about how no two fingerprints are alike? That’s not strictly true.

In our ‘Strictly’ group, we really did bond. It’s seemingly disappointing to some that we had no diva meltdowns. I made true friends during the experience, which is surprising because I’m not a new-pals sort of person.

In London, I live with one of the other ‘Strictly’ dancers, Amy Dowden. She got me a chocolate advent calendar and I had no idea what it was. I’d never seen one before!

‘Normal’ is not clinical, it’s not autobiographical, and I don’t claim to be objective. It’s strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.

The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Our actions, behavior, speech and for that matter anything that we do should strictly comply with our culture.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

People think I appear on television to promote my image. That’s not fair. I hate filming. I turned down ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’ But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. ‘Super Doctors’ is a very thoughtful piece.

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

I’m done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it’s strictly jazz, blues and country.

When I joined the ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ panel in 2009, the controller of the BBC came into my dressing room and said they were proud to have a woman of colour on their panel. It was so nice that they acknowledged it.

It’s much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you’re representing people in a truthful way.

I really don’t have an interest in it and people think I’m a freak because I’m not obsessed by ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ but it just doesn’t appeal to me. I’m really sorry but I can’t get into it. You get treated like a complete pariah if you don’t like things like that!

I first conceived of my far-future setting ‘Punktown’ in 1980, and though it contains ‘punk’ in its name, the term ‘cyberpunk’ hadn’t been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.

I’ve played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It’s the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you’re not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Whenever I leave ‘Strictly’ I want to be able to touch my toes.

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

I’m asked to do ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ on a regular basis, but I always say no.

No one can dictate what I will wear and I am strictly against such moral guardianship.

We’re a provider of experiences, not strictly accommodation.

I didn’t get in to ‘Strictly’ the first time, but my determination and enthusiasm shone through and got me a job on the show the following year. Don’t give up and turn the no’s and setbacks into a positive!

I see email being used, by and large, exactly the way I envisioned. In particular, it’s not strictly a work tool or strictly a personal thing. Everybody uses it in different ways, but they use it in a way they find works for them.

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein’s monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law – on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.

Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

I had four fantastic years on ‘Strictly’ and they were honestly the best moments of my life – meeting friends, just seeing the whole team work.

Strictly’ is nothing like ‘Love Island’… absolutely not.

Job’s avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it’s strictly because God is so powerful, and you don’t fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn’t have done ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and gone out there in public.

Having been part of this wonderful show ever since series one, I know all too well what it’s like to perform to the nation on the famous ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ dancefloor.

With ‘Strictly,’ I am mentally and physically knackered: everything aches. I knew it would be hard, but I never thought it would be this tough.

Would it be a big step forward for the LGBTQI community if there were same-sex couples on ‘Strictly?’ Do me a favour. Some things ain’t politics, and ‘Strictly’ is one of them.

‘Strictly Business’ is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.

Although I won many titles on the competition circuit, my first professional audition was in 2015 for the popular German version of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, called ‘Let’s Dance’.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.’

Le Cirque is strictly New York people. New York people don’t eat at home; New York people go out.

I don’t know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.

It may sound cliched, but ‘Strictly’ is a real journey. I try to encourage my partner to stay in as long as they can, but above all to enjoy it.

I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged with perjury strictly for political purposes.

The clever thing about the designs on ‘Strictly’ is that the razzle-dazzle comes from the materials used in making the dresses rather than because the cut or style is plunging or revealing.

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

When you are part of a massive TV show like Strictly,’ it’s not just about the professional dancers and celebrities taking part, there could be young or old people out there who are watching and they might also be inspired to take up dancing, and I find that so special.

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it’s just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that’s important.

Everyone is just so wonderful at ‘Strictly.’

I went professional with my partner, Erin Boag, 11 years ago, and we had success competing round the world, but appearing on ‘Strictly’ has changed my life.

I did have to turn down things in the past, which I was upset about sometimes, but I understood I was part of ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’

I loved being a part of ‘Celebrity MasterChef.’ The process was scary and I was so out of my comfort zone but I’ve learnt so much. Doing something I’d never done before put me in the position of the celebs on ‘Strictly’ and because of that experience, I think i’ll be a better teacher because of it.

I always enjoy the process, meeting somebody new and spending time with them and becoming friends with them. That has always been the joy of ‘Strictly’ for me, so I enjoy every year.

I like to do things where you do learn something and go on a journey, such as ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory.

I’m horrendous at dancing but I think if you do ‘Strictly’, you go on to another level, and that’s a level I have never been at.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

It’s strictly winning that is going to bring back the fan market.

When we set our hearts upon the things of this world and fail to be strictly honest with the Lord, we do not grow in the light and power and strength of the gospel as we otherwise would do.

Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors such as pension funds, whose managers are supposed to focus strictly on their fiduciary responsibilities to retirees.

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

At the end of the day, a show like ‘Strictly’ is not about what colour you are, or where you come from. It is about how hard you are prepared to work and how well you can dance.

People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don’t comply strictly with musical theater phrasing. Musical theater tends to be very one and three, and jazz is definitely two and four.

As I am straight up and down, I make a good flapper. One of the highlights of my life was dancing the Charleston with Len Goodman in a nightclub in a cream, Twenties-style dress; it was the nearest I’ll ever get to appearing on ‘Strictly’.

A lot would change if laws were strictly enforced. I know it’s a medieval thought, but fear is what keeps us from doing wrong things, right?

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

I’ve had four fantastic years on ‘Strictly Come Dancing,’ but for us it’s about moving forward and the end goal is to present a shiny-floored Saturday night TV show that we all love, for example, ‘Strictly,’ ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ – those sort of shows.

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

I never used to be able to work on the road, I was always strictly in the studio. But not everything’s gotten smaller – I have Ableton on the laptop now and a sample library, which means I can use that downtime to pour it into the music.

I won’t do ‘Strictly’ or any of those ghastly reality programmes. ‘I’m a Celebrity’ would be the end. It makes me shudder.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

I love music more than anything; I don’t think I would want to go into a strictly music field.

Strictly speaking, one never ‘keeps’ bees – one comes to terms with their wild nature.

Strictly’ is helping me keep the weight off.

I have no regrets about doing ‘Strictly.’ This is the biggest achievement of my life.

I’ve watched ‘Strictly’ every single year. I think the only year I didn’t watch it was when I was on ‘X Factor!’ I was a bit busy in 2012! But apart from that, I’ve always watched it.

The first time I did a men’s game, it was strictly because of an emergency. I went down with no preparation, but I was a fan and knew the teams. And I knocked them dead, so the next year, I had a package of men’s games.

Certainly after ‘Strictly’ I was in a very vulnerable situation.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

I wanted to create a culture that allowed my children to see the world differently, if only from a strictly visual perspective: to have a child see a room where half of the people are women and minorities is so powerful. I think everyone wants for their children a world that’s better than the one they came up in.

The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we’d gone strictly with the ’20s, the movement would have been impaired.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It’s just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

Lady Justice doesn’t have empathy for anyone. She rules strictly based upon the law, and that’s really the only way that our system can function properly under the Constitution.

My music is being condemned strictly for publicity and votes.

I’ve learnt not to expect a lot from supermodels – we’ve had them on ‘Strictly’ before and they’ve been horrendous.

I think Phillip Schofield would be great on ‘Strictly.’ He got up on ‘This Morning’ once with Holly and did a bit of a boogie and he can dance, and he is entertaining, and he is such a nice guy.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

I’ve been invited to do ‘Strictly and they told me who I would be dancing with because, apparently, you have to train with them for six weeks before. But it’s just not going to happen because my body is knackered.

I have to say I am a ‘Strictly’ fan, which is why I am in it. I’ve always watched it for years. I am not an ‘X Factor’ fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

I don’t think anything can prepare you for the ‘Strictly’ experience. It really is insane. I mean, I played football, rugby, American football. I go to the gym. I like to think I’d be quite fit, and I don’t have much fat on me to lose, and yet I still lost a stone and half and three inches off my waist.

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse – helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world – it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

Something like going onto ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ took me about two nanoseconds to decide to do whereas Si emphatically wouldn’t do it. He hates group activities. He’s quite a complicated person.

Everything I do seems to get so much attention since ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’

To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ in 2008 was great for my fitness.

I am huge fan of Australian comedy. ‘Strictly Ballroom’ is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth’s sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences.

We want our audience to enjoy themselves, we want every gig to feel like an event – of course there are musical elements of rave to our sound, but we wouldn’t strictly classify ourselves as that.

Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

I’m not saying the persona on ‘Strictly’ isn’t me – it’s just that the nurturing side, which is also a part of who I am, isn’t what I’m there for. I’m there to judge and to give an honest opinion, even if it’s not the opinion someone wants to hear.

When you do ‘Strictly,’ you’re kind of restricted. You have to dance for 90 seconds, you have to choreograph for your partner.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences… essential to that institution’s ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

I definitely want to do ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’

Seoul will strictly limit the total greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and expand the construction of zero-energy buildings.

One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don’t have street crime. It’s strictly between people who know each other. It really isn’t indiscriminate; it’s kind of between themselves.

It’s fantastic that ‘Strictly’ is beating ‘The X Factor’ for many reasons – but one of the main reasons is I think it’s a fantastic piece of variety television. It is live, varied TV whereby we are really hanging ourselves out by the seam of our pants.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They’re looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

Every time I go into a tournament, I’m strictly on my own. I know I’m playing for my bread and butter.

‘Family Ties,’ to me, was strictly ’80s. It was from the beginning of the ’80s until the end of the ’80s, and it was very specific to that time. Ronald Reagan was president.

Strictly speaking, intensity in the weight training context refers to the amount of work required to achieve the activity and is proportional to the mass of the weights being lifted – that is, how heavy the weight is relative to how strong you are.

I eat on time and am strictly against oily and fried foods.

I’ve said no to ‘Celebrity Big Brother,’ ‘Strictly,’ and the American one, ‘Dancing With The Stars.’ I don’t feel it’s right for me. I’ve been asked to do reality TV a zillion times. No way. No way. Nobody’s going to get into my living room and see me there.

I’ve always felt like there’d be pressure if I ever did ‘Strictly.’

When I first went on Strictly’ I had a little phase at the beginning, you know, when I was sat next to this really beautiful lady, Darcey Bussell – this ballerina, this Snow White beauty – that I stopped eating until I looked at myself and realized I looked so gaunt.

Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, to achieve such feats, we might not even have to leave the earth. It would suffice to accelerate the sun itself to a very high speed and let it drag all its planets with it.

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.

That would be getting up at 5 am… I don’t understand why film’s shoot such brutal hours. I think it’d be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film’s would benefit in the end.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

I’m not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn’t play a big part in my diet.

So much of what I do is so strictly confidential that it’s nice to be able to discuss or vent or laugh about something and not read about it in the newspaper the next day.

I love all reality TV – Strictly, ‘The X Factor.’ I really don’t see why people are so snobby about it.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

I got extremely fit and slim on ‘Strictly,’ but I did find that, each week, a different part of my body hurt. It really makes you realise the hard work dancers have to put in and how fit they have to be.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it’s for a title or for a small show. The only thing for me is winning my fights and being the best athlete I can be.

I’ve always presented as a very cisgender male and that was part of the reason I was able to cover so easily… I was always in such a strictly binary environment growing up. I was never given an opportunity to sort of play into more genderqueer fashion.

If someone’s in tears or they’re leaving the show, it’s hard not being able to physically reach out. But Strictly’ is such a celebratory, feel-good show, full of warmth and sparkle and joy, I felt lucky to be a part of something that people were appreciating on a whole other level because they were stuck at home.

Do you know what, before ‘Strictly,’ I’ve always regretted not training as a dancer.

There are definitely strictly independent movies. ‘Gummo’ is one. Another is one I made, ‘Fresh,’ a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.

University was a shock to the system. At times, I really thought I couldn’t do it. It’s the same with ‘Strictly.’ I’m completely out of my comfort zone.

I still speak every day on my WhatsApp to the girls I was in ‘Strictly’ with.

I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you’re not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory.

Much as I’m loving the ‘Strictly’ experience, I’m sure I’ll always be better known for my business career and my appearances on ‘Dragons’ Den’ than I will for my cha-cha-cha or Viennese waltz.

I’ve always thought doing ‘Strictly’ would be amazing. they all look so incredible at the end, but the hours you have to put in are insane.

There are plenty of organisations making a real difference to the lives of gay people around the country that do need our help, so why undermine the wonder of ‘Strictly’ by politicising it?

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

I am absolutely overjoyed to be joining ‘Strictly.’ I have so much respect for the other judges and hope to add my own bit of sparkle to the show.

I once called EastEnders’ Patsy Palmer ‘a scrubber in a Puffa jacket who cries all the time’ on ‘Strictly.’ She said I wasn’t actually a dancer. That wasn’t my finest moment.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

‘Strictly’ has taught me that activity outside work is good for my mental health.

If I’m writing strictly for others, how does that show what I’m experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

If we’re going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.

I always and strictly tell Nintendo employees never to use the term ‘success’ to describe our own performance.

I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I’m first to say that I talk a good game, but I don’t know how good I am about it in practice.

I missed out on the crash course that everyone else gets on ‘Strictly’ on every dance form.

Whatever fame or success we have right now came strictly from us playing. As long as we focus on music and not trying to be stars, I think we’ll be okay.

We have an older following with ‘Hairy Bikers,’ but ‘Strictly’ crosses all generations.

Basically, I come to Washington a couple of times a year, sort of on a strictly business basis: talk to my counterparts at the Federal Trade Commission, of the DOJ, give an occasional talk, very often in a lawyer or academic environment.

From a strictly business perspective, it’s like, ‘Even if you leave Eric alone, he’ll do stuff. He puts his own album together, he gets his own gigs, he does everything on TV. Let him be, he’s fine.’

‘New Jack City’ and ‘Boyz ‘N the Hood’ are realities, but movies like ‘Strictly Business’ are realities, too.

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don’t steal. Don’t lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I’m saying it’s already been done because I lived it.

Strictly’ is so positive, we have so much fun doing a show like ‘Strictly,’ you don’t have to worry.

‘Strictly’ is definitely life-changing, and I hope it can open another pathway for me, career-wise. Maybe something a bit more musical.

I suddenly received a call from my agent offering me the chance to do ‘Strictly’ and I had to make the decision within an hour or two. I was doing a different job towards the end of the year so I had to change my plans, but it was a no-brainer.

The hardest thing about ‘Strictly’ is having to sit still for so long; it just about kills me.

I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don’t use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it’s strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.

I never see Oti! I see her on the dance floor, I see her shortly at the after party but that’s it. In the week she’s doing her ‘Strictly’ zoom and I hardly ever see her.

I’m just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it’s random, they don’t see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.

Years ago my fans consisted almost strictly of adults.

The ‘Strictly’ experience is really like no other – the training and work that goes into it is immense.

Everybody has the Tupac that they admire. Certain people love the hip-hop person, the rapper. Strictly just the rapper. A lot of people, the newfound Tupac fans… they’re into Death Row-era Tupac. But that was only nine months!

I organise my work in the form of a daily diary. Each chapter is strictly chronological but is also monothematic – say, a war, a set of peace negotiations, a joust.

I’m strictly a quarterback.

There’s something about ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’ Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It’s lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there’s nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.

‘Strictly’ was my first job in TV ever.

One of the most heartening phenomena in today’s Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd – the nerd is out and proud, and while she may love ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ merchandise more than is strictly warranted, she is in every way to be cherished as an exemplar of cosmopolitanism and tolerance.

If you are opposed to immigration or support strictly punitive immigration measures, you cannot even start a conversation about other issues with most Latino voters.

I direct as many shows as I can fit in between ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and other performance stuff.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

When I started in the comic book business, ‘Art Of’ books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da Vinci. But times change, and so do attitudes. Now the comic is considered an art form, and I hope ‘A Life in Words and Pictures’ contributes a little to that art form’s history.

I don’t get grumpy at a ‘Strictly’ level, you understand. We’re just making a television show – the person I’m dancing with can’t dance; they’re doing their best, and we’re not going to win the World Championships.

Strictly’ has evolved – there are such beautiful stories within each dance. We’re not doing a ballroom and Latin competition, it’s an entertainment show.

I get asked to do panel shows, and reality stuff, like getting in a cage with a shark. I got asked to do a ‘Strictly’ special, but it’s not my bag. If I’m being interviewed, that’s OK, but anything else fills me with dread.

Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.

I’ve come to realise that being on ‘Strictly’ is like being in another theatre company and performing a live production.

I absolutely love watching ‘Strictly’ every weekend and I can’t believe that I’m getting the chance to be on this series.

I couldn’t shoot with both hands until I was a junior in college. I was strictly right-handed until then.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

I’ve been offered all the usual, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and the like, but the one thing I know is that for me to be good, I’ve got to absolutely love doing something. And you can’t dance the foxtrot half-hearted.

Ever since I was a presenter on CBBC and used to see the ‘Strictly’ judges walking around Television Centre, I have wanted to be on the show.

Since being involved in ‘Strictly Come Dancing,’ my life has changed completely. I can’t walk down the street without women throwing themselves at me, I usually wouldn’t mind, but they are of a certain age. Hopefully, after this series, they will bring their daughters!

I think, like for me ‘Strictly’ was a big thing that I’d wanted to do for years and I’ve done that now and now I’m like ‘okay, what should I do?’

There’s no fun in relationships. OK – that’s not strictly true. I will agree that the first bit can be not totally unpleasant. There’s the initial meeting and the heart quickening and the stomach-churning excitement of it all.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

I always considered myself a songwriter, but I didn’t move to New York with plans of doing that; it just sort of happened. Everyone thinks that I moved to New York strictly to play music, but I totally just happened to fall into playing with Woods, and it all got started from there. I just went to New York to hang out.

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that’s the way it turned out.

Even when someone fails, there’s never an underlying nastiness or cruelty. We’re an affectionate show and we’re not poking fun at anyone. Strictly’ is feel-good television at its finest.

At school people found it quite funny that I did ballroom, but I recently went to my school reunion and all they wanted to talk about was ballroom and ‘Strictly.’

All my songs usually borrow from my own life but pull from fantasy or other people’s stories that you hear, or something you read. It’s fun as a writer to pull from all those different places, and to connect them. But also, I don’t have an interesting enough life to strictly pull from that.

Kate Middleton has no blue blood coursing through her veins. Her father, Michael, is self-made, and he and his wife have been very successful with their party business, but they are and always will be strictly middle class.

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.

I’ve been asked by ‘Big Brother,’ ‘I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!,’ ‘Strictly’ and ‘Dancing on Ice,’ but it’s not for me.

I’m the sort of person – for example coming off ‘Strictly’ – I make decisions, then I just deal with them and I go with them 100 per cent.

I would go into the Jungle if I wasn’t hosting it or I’d like to do ‘MasterChef.’ But ‘Strictly?’ God, no!

I must be the only person in ‘Strictly’ history who’s actually put on weight during rehearsals.

Strictly’ has changed everything for ballroom dancing.

If I’m not doing ‘Strictly,’ I genuinely like to wake up and start with yoga, because it’s good for the mind, not just the body.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

When I made the switch from strictly entertainment news to more of these natural world documentaries, it’s really been all about wanting to make saving the world cool.

The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.

If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe I’d do it, but it really means very little to me. We’re mavericks over here, what can we say?

It really is the very top of the fashion world; nothing comes above haute couture. But not any old designer can create something magical and call it haute couture; the term is strictly protected for a very special few.

The first year I was on ‘Les Mis’ there was strictly no filming backstage, then slowly social media proved invaluable to building an audience.

I always deliver on my promises, and I can promise that doing ‘Strictly’ would be as much of an entertaining laugh for the viewers at it would be for me.

Strictly’ is a machine, it’s a beast! It’s the biggest show on television, I was thrilled I was allowed to come to watch the show – let alone work on it!

A Herd of Turtles’ is the only song on ‘Behold Electric Guitar’ that is not strictly instrumental. But instead of singing, I am reciting a poem. My poem is about overcoming challenges.

My roles in comedies from ‘Austin Powers’ to ‘Tommy Boy’ to ‘Wayne’s World,’ were sort of comedic ‘straight man’ parts. My character on ‘Parks & Recreation’ is the comic relief in a comedy. To play a character that appears strictly for laughs is sort of new for me and really fun.

The definition of ‘safe’ is not strictly an engineering term; it’s a societal term. Does it mean absolutely no loss of life? Does it mean absolutely no contamination with radiation? What exactly does ‘safe’ mean?

Some things that started in pre-season and then, you know what, the season gets started, you kind of forget about it and then move on to football, and it’s strictly football until the season finishes.

I am disciplined and tend to stick to my workout regime and eating habit and adhere to them strictly.

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

I like ‘Strictly’ because it is warm, glamourous, and brings families together.

So actually we didn’t have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government.

I’d like to do ‘Strictly’ because you learn something.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs – these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

Strictly’ is Saturday night fun. The pay’s not amazing.

I’m just so made up that I said yes to ‘Strictly.’ It has been one of the most amazing things I’ve ever done.

I think a lot of people are getting bored of audition-based shows, along the lines of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ or ‘The X-Factor’. I know I am. But ‘Dragons’ Den’ will have a longer shelf-life than all of them because it’s fundamentally real in a way that other shows aren’t.

Sometimes I make up songs, and they’re just strictly fiction. Other times, I draw on things that have happened in my life or friends, women, all sorts of things.

Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I’m very particular about my diet. It’s strictly low fat diet for me.

When I started on ‘Strictly,’ I was terrified. Live television seemed like the most daunting thing in the world.

In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.

We always have a really bad dancer on ‘Strictly,’ like Kate Garraway or Fiona Phillips, and that’s great, and we love it, but when it comes to the quarters and semis, you want the best dancers left in.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

I am strictly against a European superstate.

You only do ‘Strictly’ once, and I don’t want to have to worry about competing with Harry Judd!

After I had my heart operation I got really into heart stuff. I did think it would be lovely to go on ‘Strictly’ just so people could see I wasn’t finished. But, sadly, now I couldn’t because of my joints. I’d be hobbling around.

He and I don’t know each other like that. We know each other as strictly basketball. A lot of people on the outside don’t understand that because people think we have a relationship like every other father and son. We just don’t. That’s because he’s been gone my whole life, and that’s fine.

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn’t strictly with people and audiences. It’s also with advertisers, and that’s the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Our stuff is made strictly for fun. We’re not out to give a message.

Rabbis throughout the ages, from Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook onward, strictly prohibited going up on the Temple Mount. And now there is a minority group of rabbis encouraging Jews to go.

I’d worked in TV for a number of years before Strictly,’ doing kids’ telly and a couple of Saturday-night shows, but nothing on that scale.

I’m a massive fan of ‘Strictly’ so it’s incredible. I’m so happy that I can be a part of it.

It’s always been important to involve my family as I knew when I signed up to ‘Strictly’ that it can take over your life.

Some of the guys in Stone Sour, I think they just want to be a radio band and write strictly for radio and try to be more of a poppy rock band. And that’s not really what I’m into.

I don’t really think of ‘Frontline’ as a strictly public affairs series; I think of it as a work of journalism that is constantly reinventing itself.

Don’t get me wrong, I really like being a judge on ‘Strictly.’ But my first love and passion is directing and choreography and I will be doing that until the day I die.

I always said it was my ambition to have a library – I have one – and my dream was to have a pool. Then ‘Strictly’ came along.

I want to have my own brand and there were things I couldn’t do because of the ‘Strictly’ brand and the time involved.

Strictly is the master of all dance programmes. It’s so big!

But for women – and, yes, this is strictly applicable to females – grey hair is still a rarity, especially if you’re in the public eye.

Before, I wished my acting and my identity to be strictly separated. I felt uncomfortable about showing who I am because I was afraid it would affect how audiences see my performance. But now my thoughts have changed. I think people these days accept that actors and the roles they play are separate.

I am strictly against remaking a movie.

Everybody who talks about ‘Strictly’ talks psychobabble. They say they’re going on a journey, or trying to build their confidence, or getting over a divorce or something. People say there must be a deep reason to do these things. But there isn’t! I’m just having fun.

‘Strictly’ is so loved by the British public, I have always been a massive fan.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

If you’re living strictly for the future or living in the past, it can make your partner feel neglected. Make yourself focus on the moment you’re in.

I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it’s strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

Programs aimed strictly at the poorest Americans are always and forever under assault from a Republican Party that still has not dared to cut spending on programs – like Medicare and crop insurance – that also benefit the rich.

I did ‘Strictly’ with my whole heart, my whole soul. I genuinely put everything into it. To be part of it is so amazing.

I’m kind of well-known in Holland, which is nice. But in Holland, we’re down to earth; there are no paparazzi in my garden and no autograph hunters at the door. We have ‘Strictly Come Dancing,’ but I’ve not been asked.

Me and Summer Walker, we finna work together. I reached out to her. I DM’ed her, strictly on some business.

Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace.

The doctor has advised me to eat home-cooked food and I follow that strictly.

You can’t complain about Sir Steve or Jill Halfpenny in ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’ But Michael Owen in 1998, that really does bother me.

One thing I’ve learned from ‘Strictly’ is timing and the craft of the talk.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey’s prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.

It’s different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the ’80 Olympics, my parents couldn’t have afforded it.

In the early stages, when I realized I was going to be probably the shortest player on the teams I was on, it was hard. I felt like girls were getting recruited over me strictly because of their height, and it made me self-conscious.

I’ve tried to make ‘Strictly Ballroom’ impossible to date. It does feel a bit ’80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.

I had three brilliant years on ‘The X Factor,’ and it was one of the best jobs I’ve ever had. ‘Strictly’ is completely different; it’s a whole different show – I’m dancing. It’s not presenting. But this is one of the best things I’ve done – ever.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

Strictly’ is the most successful reality format in the world – it’s in the ‘Guinness Book of Records’ – going to 38 countries. ‘X Factor’ hasn’t done that.

Strictly has been such a gift. It is so much more than I thought it was going to be.

I would love to keep dancing. Doing ‘Strictly’ has been so wonderful.

I play basketball strictly for enjoyment and to add to the support of my family.

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word ‘I’ carried a lot of fright for me.

When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.

I couldn’t watch ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘Lord of the Rings,’ ‘House’… I was like strictly a ‘SpongeBob,’ Disney Channel, Nickelodeon kinda guy.

The first play I was ever in was ‘Cinderella,’ a children’s production in Los Angeles when I was only 8. It was strictly a children’s show which played weekends for about a year and which included such songs as ‘Long Ago and Far Away’ and ‘True Love.’

People have asked Si if he would ever do ‘Strictly,’ I don’t think he would, it’s just not his thing really.

I’m not particularly into the formal, political side of faith, although I am spiritual and I do have a faith. But ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ is my religion.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I’d been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

Certain classes of weapons that are strictly military and have no useful purpose in sport, hunting, or self-defense should not be legally sold.

I work in the studio all day, and then I go for a walk with my dog, listening to music on headphones. And Saturday and Sundays, work is strictly out of bounds. It has to be.

A lot of people have a belief system that is strictly based on religious dogma.

There were talks about going into the jungle, ‘Strictly’ and ‘Big Brother’ – and I’m a good dancer so I’d smash ‘Strictly.’

I wouldn’t say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time – phones, music players, etc. – are blobjects.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.