Craig Ferguson Quotes

Clive Barker: It's an excuse to look at my groin.Craig Ferguson: I'm European - I don't need an excuse.

Craig Ferguson

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• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Government
  • Promise

• We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Business
  • Fashion

• Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Strong
  • Religion

• None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • Act
  • Constitution

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • True
  • Reason
  • Like

• My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Way

• People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Job
  • Try
  • Circumstances

• I'm now a member of a pretty small club.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Pretty
  • Small
  • Now

• I personally like to do independent films.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Like
  • Independent
  • Films

• We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Need

• There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Power
  • Society
  • Humanity

• Wretched un-idea'd girls.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot, there are 256 different 'over-and-under' arrangements possible... Make only one change in this 'over and under' sequence and either an entirely different knot is made or no knot at all may result.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Different
  • May

• There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Life

• A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.

  

  Paul Pierce
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Goal

• And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Faces
  • Perfection
  • Artistic

• I'd like to vote for a bill. But I'm not going to vote for one unless I think it's going to be good for the area I represent.

  

  Gene Green
  • Good

• After working with Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, and Jonathan Mangum, I said, 'I am never going to talk about improv again.'

  

  Fred Willard

• Clive Barker: It's an excuse to look at my groin.Craig Ferguson: I'm European - I don't need an excuse.

  

  Craig Ferguson