Bill Bailey (Mark Robert Bailey) Quotes

I'm English and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.

Bill Bailey

• Disappointment
• Surprise
• Kinder

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• If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Like
  • Surprise
  • Behave

• In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Judge
  • Humor

• I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Me
  • Grandmother
  • Birth

• The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

  

  M. Ward
  • Live
  • Best
  • Surprise

• Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Design

• The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Surprise
  • Speed
  • Secrecy

• I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Help

• Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • World
  • Me
  • Thing

• I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.

  

  Gallagher
  • Language
  • Blue
  • Surprise

• Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Reality
  • Celebrity
  • Disappointment

• I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Girl
  • Surprise
  • Engagement

• Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe - a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic - and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Real
  • Hope
  • Universe

• We had an agreement with Borussia that I could leave. It didn't happen. It is a disappointment. But I'm also happy to stay.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Happy
  • Disappointment

• First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

  

  Maximilian Schell
  • Marriage
  • Disappointment

• The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • Children
  • Parents

• There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Soul
  • Failure
  • Disappointment

• In any given project, there are a few moments where there is the usual disappointment, as it were, when you look in the mirror, and you realize you're not 23 and looking like Brad Pitt.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Moments
  • Mirror
  • Disappointment

• There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

  

  John Newton
  • World
  • God
  • Faith

• You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Look

• Free men have arms; slaves do not.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Men
  • Slave
  • Arms

• Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Society
  • Justice
  • Christ

• Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Record

• I'm English and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.

  

  Bill Bailey
  • Disappointment
  • Surprise
  • Kinder