Ken Dodd Quotes

Did you know that a laugh is something that comes out of a hole in your face? Anywhere else and you're in dead trouble!

Ken Dodd

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• I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Dog
  • Webster

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Popular
  • Word
  • Dirty

• It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Political
  • Me

• I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Life
  • My Life
  • I Can

• The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • God
  • Sense
  • Enthusiasm

• So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Money

• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • May
  • Lonely
  • Often

• We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Violence

• I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Work
  • Want
  • Like

• Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Marriage
  • Never
  • Name

• I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Music
  • Bad

• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Business

• I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • People
  • Women
  • Amazing

• Between the desireAnd the spasmBetween the potencyAnd the existenceBetween the essenceAnd the descentFalls the Shadow .

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Shadow

• Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Sex

• The path that leads from the persona to the self, from the adult to the outlaw, consists of learning to distinguish between false desire and true desire, or superficial desire and profound desire, or obsessive desire and free passion, … or illusory needs and real needs.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Real
  • True
  • Free

• ... secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Life

• Recycling is what we do when we're out of options to avoid, repair, or reuse the product first. Firstly: Reduce. Don't buy what we don't need. Repair: Fix stuff that still has life in it. Reuse: Share. Then, only when you've exhausted those options, recycle.

  

  Annie Leonard
  • Reduce
  • Recycling
  • Repair

• We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence.

  

  Farrah Gray
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Realizing

• When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Mother
  • City
  • Star

• Did you know that a laugh is something that comes out of a hole in your face? Anywhere else and you're in dead trouble!

  

  Ken Dodd