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I've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself.
Our local department store had two Santas - one for regular kids and one for kids who wanted ten toys or less.
The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
My parents said they had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay for my education... because they were both druids.
You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.
Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
I make my money from a lot of different sources, so I'm not depending on any one thing to really pull through.
Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.
I didn't like talking about my divorce. I think I viewed that as something that was embarrassing or a failure.
I wanted to be a pastor. I was going to be a youth pastor. I mean, I play guitar; I like to make people laugh.
I think there's too much emphasis on making sure our corporations are OK versus making sure our people are OK.
The day you don't mess with somebody, that would be exclusive rather than inclusive. I strive to be inclusive.
Simon Peter, who embarrassed the other disciples at the Last Supper by asking for seconds. Never got a dinner!
Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner!
Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.
I certainly wouldn't be a dental hygienist - they should get the Medal of Honor just to look at people's gums.
I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.
People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.
I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.
With Netflix, I browse; I watch documentaries about things I'd never dream of, but I think, 'I might as well.'
I always do a little bit of improv. I did some of 'The Office,' a tiny bit in 'Extras,' a bit more in 'Derek.'
I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.
Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.
My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.
There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.
When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.
There's an interconnectivity between what's in the consciousness of cat and what's in the consciousness of us.
I don't want to do a rabidly left-wing show. I think it's much more interesting to turn the knife on yourself.
In the summer Regent's Park is one of the best places in the world with every nationality playing every sport.
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
When patronised, I'm unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it's because I actually feel quite wounded.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.
My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.
If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?
I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit .
In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.
Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.
Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.
I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.
So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested.
Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.
I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane.