John Cleese Quotes
Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
Quotes to Explore
-
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
-
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
-
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
-
I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
-
Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
-
I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
-
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
-
I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
-
I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
-
I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
-
In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
-
I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
-
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
-
Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
-
To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
-
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
-
I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
-
I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
-
There needs to be fiscal common sense.
-
I guess when I first started writing music, I really had no idea if anyone was ever going to hear what I was writing and almost no intention of people hearing it. So, it was kind of this journal. It was pretty unfiltered.
-
I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.
-
Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.
-
I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
-
Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
