Alexei Sayle Quotes

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

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• Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Service

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Health
  • Question
  • Healthy

• I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Think
  • Success
  • Follow

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

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

  

  Ted Yoho
  • You
  • Hand
  • Looking

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Dream
  • Thought
  • Leader

• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Son
  • Impact

• Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Healthy

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Train

• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • God
  • Liberal
  • Suggestions

• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Summer

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Country
  • Band
  • Name

• Not even on finding himself in a well-ordered house does a man step forward and say to himself, I must be master here! Else the lord of that house takes notice of it, and, seeing him insolently giving orders, drags him forth and chastises him. So it is also in the great City, the World. Here also is there a Lord of the House, who orders all things... (110).

  

  Epictetus
  • World
  • Great
  • House

• Soccer matches in Europe have riot police. Metal is just people sloshing around drunk and sloppy and having fun, and there's nothing wrong with that. It is a great outlet for aggression.

  

  Chris Reifert Autopsy
  • People
  • Fun
  • Police

• We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

  

  Clara Zetkin
  • Women
  • Spiritual
  • Moral

• Il ne faut jamaisVendre la peau de l'ours qu'on ne l'ait mis par terre.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

• I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Friend
  • Claim
  • Lifelong

• People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

  

  Alexei Sayle
  • People