Tommy Cooper Quotes

A man walked into the doctor's, The doctor said 'I haven't seen you in a long time' The man replied, 'I know I've been ill'.

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• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Journey
  • Discovery

• One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Reality
  • Jazz
  • Prism

• Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Democracy
  • Spring
  • Hell

• I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Film

• Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Up
  • Years
  • Fight

• By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Time
  • School
  • Left

• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Role

• We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Down
  • Parade
  • Runway

• I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Happy
  • Never
  • Childhood

• To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

  

  Laura Lang
  • People
  • Job
  • Together

• The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all - Communists and non-Communists alike - want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Want
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• I've dated people where we traveled horribly together, and if one thing went wrong, it was horrible for them. Then I've been fortunate enough to have great traveling experiences where everything lined up and even when things went wrong, you just laughed about it. You learn so much about yourself when you're traveling with someone.

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Writer
  • Going
  • Either

• Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Work
  • Know
  • Wait

• I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That may be an aspect of yourself; it may be an aspect of something that you like, that you don't like. It may be an aspect that you wish you had. Maybe something you admire in another person.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Work
  • May
  • Wish

• I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Dad

• Why do I love Roald Dahl? His voice, more than anything. It's irreproducible. It's so musical, and it's funny even when it's not trying to be, which is most of the time.

  

  Jesse Andrews
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Why

• I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Guilt
  • Whatever
  • Happily

• A man walked into the doctor's, The doctor said 'I haven't seen you in a long time' The man replied, 'I know I've been ill'.

  

  Tommy Cooper
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