Billy Connolly Quotes

I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.

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• I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Up
  • Friends
  • True

• The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Great
  • Business
  • Pretty

• As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Unity

• It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Back
  • Finish
  • Throw

• I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Science

• No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Govern

• Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • World
  • Future
  • Know

• Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • God
  • Connection
  • Issue

• I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Advice

• In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Germany
  • Trendy
  • Ham

• I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Believe
  • Painting
  • Acting

• Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Fall

• Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • World
  • She
  • Together

• It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Good
  • Style

• 8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Attention

• This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • May
  • Tears

• People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Live
  • Alone

• So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New Orleans, it's a special place to me. We been doing it since the beginning. We did it when it was in Houston, but there's nothing like New Orleans.

  

  Douglas Davis
  • Beginning

• When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.

  

  Koichi Tanaka
  • Time
  • Home

• If anyone was going to write a song or, you know, or a book, or make a film about a girl like me, it was going to have to be a girl like me, and quite literally, me.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Book
  • Song
  • Girl

• My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.

  

  Billy Connolly