Simon Bird (Simon Antony Bird) Quotes

People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.

Simon Bird

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Watching

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • You
  • Best
  • Worst

• One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Think
  • Same
  • Plants

• If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Live
  • You
  • Lived

• Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Great
  • Done
  • Small

• Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • You
  • Attitude
  • Eagles

• I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Study

• Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Complex
  • Ownership
  • Judicial

• Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • May
  • Tombstone

• I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Important
  • Pain
  • Design

• Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

  

  Dieter Rams
  • Good
  • Great
  • Design

• Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

  

  David Hilbert
  • Science
  • Opinion
  • Connection

• It's great to see my hard work paying off, even if it's not finished.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Work
  • Great

• El Cholo is a great coach: he asks a lot of his players and demands a lot of intensity. If your guard is down even a bit in training, Cholo tells you put extra effort in quickly.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Great
  • Effort
  • Training

• Beyond monetary policy, fiscal policy has traditionally played an important role in dealing with severe economic downturns.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Important

• Some people run away from things.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • People

• I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Immigration
  • Legal

• My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Book
  • Want
  • End

• True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Long
  • True
  • Fall

• Tanzania is standing by the people of Zimbabwe including President Mugabe... Mugabe is there, he is president, he has been elected. If Tanzania had simply said, stupid, you’re hopeless, a murderer, a violator of basic human rights; does that remove Mugabe from office? It doesn’t.

  

  Jakaya Kikwete
  • People
  • Stupid

• People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.

  

  Simon Bird
  • Work
  • Television
  • Millionaire