Twenty Twelve Bbc Comedy Quotes & Sayings

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo Da Vinci

A woman from the audience asks: 'Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?' and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: "There were women, they were there, I knew them, their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the '50s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up. — Stephen Scobie

Good filmmakers actually are people who have lived life, who have something to say, who have stories to tell. People who fall, perhaps make a bad film, pick themselves up and go on to make another one. What strength people exhibit. — Juliet Asante

Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within you. — Milton Resnick

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.' — Dan Jenkins

It turns out from a number of more recent studies that reported happiness is strongly positively linked with the change or growth in GDP per capita from year to year. — Diane Coyle

They were two human primates carrying another primate. One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be, and the other was a nimble dweller in trees, a cousin of the master of the earth. Both species, the human and the monkey, were in the presence of another life form, which was older and more powerful than either of them, and was a dweller in blood. — Richard Preston

The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it. — David W. Orr

Education always precedes experience but Your real victory is when you Experience something you haven't been educated for and you Excel. — Vikrmn