Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Coogan

A friend of mine once said he like his women like his parmesan: strong smelling and shaved. I don't agree with that, but I don't like hairy women.

Steve Coogan

Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.

Steve Coogan

I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

Stephen Fry

It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.

Stephen Fry

As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.

Stephen Fry

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Stephen Fry

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

St. Jerome

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Sophia Loren

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

Rutger Hauer

The funny thing is most people don't approach me because they are scared, and that's fine, I want to keep it that way. But the thing is if you're not scared or get over it you learn that sometimes what you're scared of is really what you shouldn't be scared of.

Ross MacDonald

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

Rosie Perez

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

Ross Perot

This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.

Roger Daltrey

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.

Sam Shepard

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

Rush Limbaugh

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

W. G. Sebald

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

W. S. Gilbert

Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind-- They don't blame you--as long as you're funny!

W. H. Auden

Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

W. H. Auden

We are all here on earth to help others.

W. H. Auden

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

W. H. Auden

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

William Congreve

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

Ursula Andress

I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.

Uri Geller

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

Ursula K. Le Guin

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

William Glasser

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

William Goldman

Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Warren Zevon

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

W. Somerset Maugham

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.