“It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the stronges...” — Chris Rea Quote

It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.

I think all the business stuff - the promotion, the hype, the high-power lunches, and the permanently injected smiles - is boring.

To say that losing your pancreas is a sad thing is not an overstatement. They had to take my pancreas away, my duodenum, and it's damaged for ever.

As soon as I paid the mortgage off in 1988, I started racing cars.

I remember my first day at grammar school, being the only person who was me. Everybody else was like everybody else, and there I was, tanned, in a freezing cold playground in the middle of Middlesbrough, wondering what on earth I was doing there.

Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.

I can't do bleak, I always prefer to focus on the positive.

'Bleak House' is like the best soap you could ever hope to watch.

The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.