Karl Pilkington Quotes

People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.

Karl Pilkington

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• I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Inspiration
  • Summon

• I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • World
  • House

• Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.

  

  Olav Thon
  • Country
  • War
  • Free

• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • School
  • America

• Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • You
  • Hand
  • Looking

• No one pays me to be nice.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Pays

• One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Good
  • Never

• The surface is all you get of me.

  

  Gary Hume
  • You
  • Me
  • Get

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Good
  • Culture

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• I believe that everything has a shelf life.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Money

• Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life
  • Better
  • Seed

• They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • High
  • Me

• If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Men

• We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.

  

  Collis Potter Huntington
  • Good
  • Profit
  • Ships

• From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • True
  • Patient
  • Madness

• I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Long
  • Parents

• People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • World
  • Good