Paul Merton Quotes

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

Paul Merton

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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Society
  • Paint
  • Opponents

• I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • City
  • Washington
  • Call

• The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Long
  • Women
  • Struggle

• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • School
  • Home
  • America

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Important
  • Remember
  • America

• Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Together
  • Change

• I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

  Gail Devers
  • Long
  • Fine
  • Cautious

• I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Professional
  • Loss
  • Office

• Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Great

• Radio helps you break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Power
  • Audience
  • Radio

• It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and myths.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Science
  • Religious
  • Scripture

• Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.

  

  James Patterson
  • Great
  • Promise

• I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

  

  Bryan Fuller
  • Funny

• Immortality... Is that a super power?

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Power

• I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent.

  

  Paul Watson
  • People
  • Children
  • Education

• A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Painting

• I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid character, you need to find that kid.

  

  James Wan
  • Character
  • Kids

• An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • Control

• In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • World
  • America
  • Action

• What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Girl
  • Romantic

• When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

  

  Paul Merton
  • Morning
  • Realising