Ronnies Quotes & Sayings

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art. — Hermann Hesse

In our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standing on our feet, with a tap which drips while we cannot drink the water, and we wait for something which will certainly be terrible, and nothing happens and nothing continues to happen. What — Primo Levi

I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their ... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore. — Jessica Hagedorn

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence. — Julius Erving

In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. — John Gay

I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart. — Ronnie Corbett

People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it. — Candace Bushnell

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. — Sydney Smith

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal. — Simone Elkeles

The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material. — David Gerrold