Puckoon Quotes & Sayings

Well, he thought, you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be President of the United States, and on that useless profundity, Milligan himself pedalled on, himself, himself. — Spike Milligan

Some of the best demigods have gotten their start by blowing up toilets. — Rick Riordan

Even a clock that's broken is right twice a day. — Marcia Clark

If someone is being bullied or feels like an outsider, and they relate to something that I've done, even if it's just igniting a spark, that's great. I had that feeling as a kid. I was messed with no end. — Johnny Depp

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death. — Spike Milligan

The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all. — Spike Milligan

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism. — Sylvester Stallone

It obviously matters who gets to be president. And it's perfectly valid for us media types to advocate for the candidate we think is more qualified, based on our reporting. But the hype has gotten so out of control, it's become bigger than the presidency itself. — Matt Taibbi

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics. — Richard P. Feynman

Every soul is special. They're all beautiful. They're all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people are at their best, they're acting in accordance with their soul. The ones who have gone bad don't have bad souls. They've just given up on keeping in touch with them. — Jim Butcher

Author, author, did you write these legs?( The Milligan- Puckoon — Spike Milligan

A bad laugh is a laugh for the sake of a laugh that's out of character. — Scott Ellis

Certainly human culture may have achieved great progress in the course of history. Suffering and unhappiness in the human world, however, do not seem to have decreased. The present situation of our world is so full of poverty, distrust, diseases, strife, that there seems to be no end. Hundreds and thousands of great men admired as saints and sages have appeared in the world in the past, and they have devoted their lives for the betterment of the world. Human suffering and unhappiness, however, do not seem to have decreased or ended. Over and over again they repeatedly, thanklessly endeavoured to fill up the well with snow. The true life of Zen is found here, when we all become true Great Fools and calmly and nonchalantly keep on doing our best, realizing well that our efforts will never be rewarded. — Zenkei Shibayama

R.I.P.
Tom Conlon O'Rourke.
Not Dead, just Sleeping. — Spike Milligan

After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it — Spike Milligan

The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please, she was asking him to agree that her life was not a failure. — Richard Yates

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral. — Robin Boyd

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist. — Hiroyuki Takei

I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it ... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that. — Harold Prince

Hugh had led men into battle with success and was on reasonably good terms with the king, though they would never be intimates; in any case, his father had been so close to his king that this would probably have to suffice for whole generations of Dipensers. — Susan Higginbotham

I have trouble asking for what I want, especially when it comes to men."
"If you don't ask for what you want, how do you get it?" Felicia asked. "If you're relying on him guessing, you're sabotaging your own happiness. — Susan Mallery