Tommy Cooper Quotes

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds later they come alight again, well the other day there was a fire at the factory that makes them.

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• From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Identity
  • Equality
  • Blow

• A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Time
  • Work
  • Funny

• Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Star
  • Couple
  • Actor

• I have an unfortunate personality.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Funny
  • Personality

• Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Couple
  • Married
  • Uncomfortable

• There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Sad

• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

  

  Vera Wang
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Beach

• There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Political

• The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Society
  • Fire
  • Ethical

• Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Society
  • You
  • Couple

• And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Joy

• I believe women should be independent and have their own life. But I also think that when a couple decides to have a family, things change because you need to live in unison.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Funny
  • Best
  • Memories

• I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Soul
  • Pretty
  • Friend

• There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Sweet

• I learned how to ski for 'Eddie the Eagle.' I never skied before. So I had to go out to Germany a couple of weeks early and make sure I could ski.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Couple
  • Go
  • How

• Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Life
  • Funny
  • inspirational

• Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • Life
  • Real

• If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Fear
  • Joy

• Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Experience
  • Spiritual
  • Faces

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds later they come alight again, well the other day there was a fire at the factory that makes them.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Funny
  • Couple
  • Fire