Joanna Lumley Quotes

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

Joanna Lumley

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• A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • True
  • Hope
  • Leader

• I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Will

• Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Art
  • Choose
  • Balancing

• It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • People
  • Women
  • Hope

• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • God
  • Society

• Mutual investments of Israeli and American companies strengthen economic ties between the two countries and contribute to Israel and to the U.S. alike.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • American
  • Economic
  • Israel

• I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Believe
  • Amazing
  • Looking Forward

• The reason behind Hrithik being the best dancer is that he never takes his work for granted.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Best
  • Being The Best

• It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Truth
  • Baby
  • Better

• I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact, the opportunity would exist to do another, if it's a good script, I would be very anxious to work with Ridley Scott again; he's a very talented and passionate filmmaker. And I think it would be very interesting to revisit the character.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.

  

  Larry Niven
  • She
  • Universe

• We got all the influences for it Global a Go-Go from Willesden High Road. When you go out for milk and cigarettes you go through three countries because all the shops and cafes are playing their own music, like going through hell.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Music
  • High
  • Road

• My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Great
  • Single

• The Democratic plan in the 'Affordable Care Act' has, I would say, more government support, more government regulation around trying to protect the finances of individuals, trying to protect people who had pre-existing conditions, making sure that they could actually be in an insurance market and not set off to the side.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • People
  • Trying
  • Support

• Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Question

• I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Good
  • School
  • Teacher

• If technology is designed mostly by white males, who make up roughly half our population, we're missing out on the innovation, solutions, and creativity that a broader pool of talent can bring to the table.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Creativity

• There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Whole
  • Holiness
  • Shortcuts

• Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

  

  Wolf Kahn
  • Painting
  • Information
  • Visceral

• One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of the writers has an idea, and you say, 'Ooh, that's so much cooler. Let's do that instead.' It's so much more fluid and organic that way, and that's the most fun part about it.

  

  Jed Whedon
  • Fun
  • Goals

• People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at the end, and it would be 16 hours. It's not about that.

  

  Max Richter
  • People
  • Sleep

• Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Joy
  • Union

• I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

  

  Joanna Lumley