Eric Idle Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
-
Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
-
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
-
Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
-
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
-
You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
-
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
-
Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
-
I became a dancer late and an actor late.
-
You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
-
What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
-
I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
-
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
-
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
-
When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
-
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
-
The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
-
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
-
Families have a sense of kinship that no four strangers would ever have as a team.
-
Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
-
Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.
-
If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the legal field, that's different; that is my - they are my qualifications, but you know, the politicians are the ones who stand up there and are answerable to the people.
-
It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.
