Paul Merton Quotes
I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?
Paul Merton
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
Zara Phillips
I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
Rafael Nadal
If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
Fidel Castro
We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
Najib Razak
People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
Waris Ahluwalia
A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.
William Shenstone
I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call home and ask if everything was fine at home because I would never smile. Then I got into this phase, from maybe fourth to eighth grade, where my personality just did a 180.
Alessia Cara
I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.
David M. Brown
When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.
Takashi Murakami
I'm old and boring in London and get really tired around midnight. But in Berlin, I had this new lease of life because there's something electric about the place.
Emily Berrington
I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?
Paul Merton
