Billy Connolly Quotes
I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.Billy Connolly
Quotes to Explore
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie -
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
Varley O'Connor -
We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani -
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
Viggo Mortensen -
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
J. William Fulbright
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
Sam Walton -
It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
Xavier Dolan -
Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
Oscar Isaac -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup -
To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
Nancy Grace -
I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
Hans Vestberg
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
Dan Marino -
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
Manuel Puig -
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn -
Every note is a lifetime for itself.
Daniel Barenboim -
I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
Natalie Cole -
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
Damian Lewis
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You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
Penn Jillette -
On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
Sam Hunt -
I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.
Maxine Peake -
As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.
Chris Pratt -
Music is so huge to soccer, to my life, to working out. I usually have headphones when I'm cleaning the house or making dinner.
Alex Morgan -
I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
Billy Connolly