Top 315 Strictly Quotes

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.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Le Cirque is strictly New York people. New York people don’t eat at home; New York people go out.
Sirio Maccioni
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.
Sam Walton
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.
Anton du Beke
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.
Mark Fuhrman
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.
Kate Garraway
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.
George Martin
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.
Shirley Ballas
There are very few people that I deal with from a busin

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.
David Nail
Everyone is just so wonderful at ‘Strictly.’
Emma Weymouth
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.
Anton du Beke
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.’
A. J. Pritchard
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.
A. J. Pritchard
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.
Anton du Beke
I like to do things where you do learn something and go on a journey, such as ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’
Rachel Riley
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.
Johannes Brahms
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.
Benjamin Tucker
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.
Robbie Savage
No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
It’s strictly winning that is going to bring back the fan market.
Giancarlo Stanton
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.
Heber J. Grant
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.
Elaine Chao
Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.
Peter R. Grant
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.
Oti Mabuse
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.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
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’.
Lucy Worsley
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?
Shraddha Srinath
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.
Matthew Desmond
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. J. Pritchard
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.
Emile Durkheim
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.
Bonobo
I won’t do ‘Strictly’ or any of those ghastly reality programmes. ‘I’m a Celebrity’ would be the end. It makes me shudder.
Mary Berry
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.
Benjamin F. Wade
I love music more than anything; I don’t think I would want to go into a strictly music field.
Grant Gustin
Strictly speaking, one never ‘keeps’ bees – one comes to terms with their wild nature.
Sue Hubbell
Strictly’ is helping me keep the weight off.
Dave Myers
I have no regrets about doing ‘Strictly.’ This is the biggest achievement of my life.
Caroline Flack
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.
Rylan Clark-Neal
The first time I did a men's game, it was strictly beca

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.
Doris Burke
Certainly after ‘Strictly’ I was in a very vulnerable situation.
Arlene Phillips
Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
Dashiell Hammett
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.
Ryan Murphy
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.
Colleen Atwood
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.
E. F. Schumacher
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.
Judge Mills Lane
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.
Wendy Long
My music is being condemned strictly for publicity and votes.
Bushwick Bill
I’ve learnt not to expect a lot from supermodels – we’ve had them on ‘Strictly’ before and they’ve been horrendous.
Craig Revel Horwood
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.
A. J. Pritchard
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.
William Robertson Smith
A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
Jef Raskin
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.
Chris Kamara
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.
Felicity Kendal
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes
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.
Ricky Whittle