Paul Merton Quotes

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

Paul Merton

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• As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Running
  • Woman
  • Find

• The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Together
  • Ambition
  • Politician

• Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Help
  • Needs

• Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Children
  • Doe
  • Politician

• Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Pride
  • Firsts
  • Prejudice

• Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Black
  • Cool
  • Firsts

• I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Ocean
  • Very
  • Much

• When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Live
  • School

• We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Men
  • Firsts
  • Beer

• There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Practice
  • Firsts

• When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Said
  • Firsts
  • Able

• The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Reason
  • Politician

• Who else would find me at just this moment? First he found me drunk, now he found me cleaning up poo from a barking pony who was about to go into attack mode.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Up
  • Firsts
  • Drunk

• I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • American
  • War
  • Winning

• I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Respect
  • Running
  • Luck

• I was disappointed and in a little bit of shock. I had a really hard time with a couple of jumps in the warm-up and I just couldn't get over it. I definitely didn't think I was going to get any medal at all at the end of the program, so it was a nice surprise.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Disappointed
  • Shock
  • Jumps

• Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

  

  John B. Hood
  • Firsts
  • Holes
  • Majors

• She loved the way he deepened the kiss, making her dizzy as he wound his fingers in her hair and angled her head, urging her mouth open wider as he kissed her more forcefully. Reese tore at his shirt, needing to see him, to feel his skin against hers.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Kiss
  • Loved
  • Skin

• I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Kind
  • Crazy
  • Film

• The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone 'Stuck in Love', with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep - not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Up
  • Book
  • Movie

• If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Mirror
  • Spoon
  • Dent

• I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

  

  Paul Merton
  • Firsts
  • Politician
  • Disappointed