Jerrykins Quotes & Sayings

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job. — Robin Williams

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. — Kurt Vonnegut

Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ? — Lord Mountbatten

Jerrykins, or Pickled Gherkins. Lord Peter was not one of those born uncles who delight old nurses by their — Dorothy L. Sayers

You are not thinking hard enough if you are sleeping well. And you would have to be unhinged to take on a subject like the French Revolution, or Rembrandt, and not feel some trepidation. There is always the possibility that you will crash and burn, and the whole thing will be a horrible, vulgar, self-indulgent mess. — Simon Schama

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity. — John Biggins

This segregation is confirmed by the common stereotypes of these two disciplines and their representatives. While scientists are perceived as absentminded, casually dressed individuals who live in a refined world of abstract theory with little practical reality, lawyers are usually perceived as formally dressed people who are practically oriented, concentrating mainly on trivialities (such as negotiating their retaining fee) and engaging professionally in all sorts of nitty-gritty social intercourse - the kind of things that normal people, although worried by them, would rather not have to deal with themselves. — Fritjof Capra

I'm just getting older and better. — Neal Schon

I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it. — Steve Yzerman

I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often. — Gail Simmons

Yes, it is true that beauty is only skin deep, and internal loveliness resonates to the outside; but deep down inside every woman secretly longs to possess the allure of a royal queen. — Terry A. O'Neal

In the grave I can tell you the truth. I am your own Dunia, but I am also a princess of the jinnias or jiniri. The slits in the world are reopening, so I can come back to see you — Salman Rushdie

Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy? — James Stephens

The Conservative Mind describes a cast of intellect or a type of character, an inclination to cherish the permanent things in human existence. On many prudential questions, and on some general principles, conservatives may disagree from time to time among themselves; so this book offers a certain diversity of opinions. Yet the folk called "conservative" join in resistance to the destruction of old patterns of life, damage to the footings of the civil social order, and reduction of human striving to material production and consumption. — Russell Kirk

If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms. — A.A. Milne