Benny Hill Quotes

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

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• Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Car

• For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Why
  • You

• I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Work
  • Live
  • Present

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Women
  • Know
  • Everyone

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Story
  • Mankind

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Start
  • Risks

• Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Risk
  • Chance
  • Difficult

• I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Science
  • Always
  • Spiritual

• Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Run

• LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Life
  • Music
  • Experience

• There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Step

• Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Why
  • American
  • House

• Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

  

  J. Cole
  • Words
  • Cool
  • Sometimes

• My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Dreams

• I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Moral
  • Assumption

• My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Father
  • Girl
  • Wind

• The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.

  

  Conrad Black
  • American

• I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Perfect
  • Myself
  • See

• I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Time
  • Think
  • Perfect

• A monk of La Trappe, a French soldier of the Imperial Guard, and a thriving mill-owner, supposing each a type, and no more than a type, of his class, are all interesting specimens of humanity, but narrow ones, - so narrow that even all the three together would not make up a perfect man.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Up
  • Together
  • Interesting

• Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

  

  Benny Hill
  • Perfect
  • Complains
  • Parachutes