Eric Sykes Quotes

I'm proud of being a vaudevillian, the last of my line. A lot of people think my entertainment is candy-floss. Well, entertainment is too aggressive these days, all 'in your face.'

Eric Sykes

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• I pack on mass quickly when I lift.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Mass
  • Quickly
  • Lift

• I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Me
  • Always
  • Try

• I take a lot of pictures.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Take
  • Pictures
  • Lot

• I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Age
  • Small
  • College

• Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • World
  • Think
  • Worry

• It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Just
  • Hitting
  • Slump

• The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Country
  • Rock

• I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Good
  • Different
  • Writing

• On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Past
  • Blue
  • Abuse

• The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Together

• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Long
  • Society
  • Space

• We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Fighting

• There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Weird

• He knew that there was death-that there must be death if there were evolution, that death was one of the mechanisms that biologically spelled progress and advancement for evolutionary species.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Death
  • Progress

• Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

  

  Arthur Young
  • Science

• Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Habit

• Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Artist

• My wife always hates when I go, 'I just don't love female action movies.' I don't know why. I'll watch them, but I don't run to go and see them.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Why
  • Action
  • Wife

• Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • Proud
  • Challenges

• I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

  

  George H. W. Bush
  • Black
  • Fire
  • Angry

• I'm proud of being a vaudevillian, the last of my line. A lot of people think my entertainment is candy-floss. Well, entertainment is too aggressive these days, all 'in your face.'

  

  Eric Sykes
  • Proud
  • Aggressive
  • Vaudeville