Eric Idle Quotes

I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

Eric Idle

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• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• Winning is everything in Hollywood.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Winning
  • Hollywood

• I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Worry

• No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Man
  • Intelligent
  • Down

• The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Age
  • Me
  • Attention

• People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Movie
  • Science
  • Star

• Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Clear
  • Voting

• My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Time
  • Play
  • Excited

• Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Children
  • Power
  • Control

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• Health care should be affordable for everyone.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Health
  • Care
  • Everyone

• I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Universe

• I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Risk

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Shine

• 'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.

  

  Kathe Koja
  • She
  • Friends
  • Childhood

• I think it's mainly when I need inspiration I look at the old pictures. I don't find it as much in the new stuff. I love Carole Lombard. I think she's wonderful. Gloria Grahame was really great. Garbo. Dietrich. People knew how to create an illusion. Now everything is very realistic and straightforward. Everyone's grunge.

  

  Kelly Rutherford
  • People
  • Great
  • She

• If nobody wants to buy your album, who's going to buy your clothes?

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Clothes
  • Album

• 'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

  

  Don Cornelius
  • Soul

• I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

  

  Eric Idle
  • Life
  • Family
  • Home