George Formby Quotes

Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.

George Formby

• People
• Business
• Crazy
• Crowds

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• We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

  

  Tara Strong
  • Music
  • Scripts
  • Begins

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• It's a very good historical book about history.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Book
  • History

• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Language

• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Universe
  • Two
  • Stupidity

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Never
  • Read
  • Mockingbird

• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Speak

• Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Home
  • Gold
  • New

• How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Security

• Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Man
  • Lies
  • Summer

• Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Voice

• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Child
  • Dinner
  • Your Child

• Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Journey
  • Nothing
  • Laugh

• It was clear that if I didn't spend the rest of my life concentrating on string theory, I would simply be missing my life's calling.

  

  Edward Witten
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Missing

• And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing...It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!

  

  Debbie Gibson

• People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.

  

  James Caan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Book

• What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

  

  Antony Flew
  • God
  • Existence
  • Occur

• Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Elephant
  • Pointless
  • Caviar

• The Conservatives, along with Labour, I don't think understand what it is like to run a business.

  

  Peter Hargreaves
  • Business

• Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.

  

  George Formby
  • People
  • Business
  • Crazy