Tommy Cooper Quotes

I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any.

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• We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Future
  • Past

• As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • True
  • High
  • Organization

• Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • True
  • Peace

• Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Hero

• The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • People
  • Study
  • Dishes

• Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Scripts

• However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • People
  • Done

• I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
  • Music
  • Country

• Your life can become the background for the art you create.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Life
  • Art
  • Background

• Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Giving
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• Plus Ginnifer’s Sexoskeleton, which would take way too long to describe.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Describe
  • Ginnifer
  • Sexoskeleton

• As athletes, we love to say, 'Just one more; I'm going to figure it out on this next one.' It's tough to pull back the reins and do what is smart physically, listening to your body and always ending a workout or session feeling like I could have done more.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Listening

• Conceptually, I am open to mistakes - errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: 'Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn't know about this.'

  

  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Know
  • Like
  • Mistake

• Comedy is a camouflage for depression.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Comedy
  • Depression
  • Camouflage

• There are networks of groupies - and nowadays it's instant because of the internet. Before, it took days to tell your penpal 'I just had Jimi Hendrix'. Nowadays, 20 minutes after you've zipped your trousers up, it's in New Zealand! Somebody e-mailed me a groupie website that I was on, and there was somebody describing my tackle. It was flattering but completely fucking wrong - I'd be the first to say that I don't have a ten-and-a-half-inch dick!

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Internet
  • Wrong
  • Describing

• I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Way
  • White
  • Trousers

• I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Trousers
  • Camouflage