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Spike Milligan Quotes

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: irish
Birth: April 16, 1918 - February 27, 2002

Topics

Funny Speak I Can Like Native

There is something interesting about a face that has lived.

Face Interesting Lived Something

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

John Chrysostom

Nature Men Human Nature Ready Human

Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine writing was uncritical and emphasized wine as a romantic, historic beverage. Criticism and comparative tastings were eschewed for fear of offending the trade, which most writers depended upon for survival.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Fear Romantic Past Writing Criticism

Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.

Wrong Nothing Never Anything Houses

Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered.

Service Quality Training Law Secret

I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.

Romantic Service Job Know Movies

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.

Mother She Anything Like Absolutely

What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.

Condoleezza Rice

People Tyranny Done Way Open Danger

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

Artist More Beggar Than Much

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.

Movies Never Only Books Finished

I'm certainly afraid of not being able to write for some reason. I guess I've had spells of not necessarily writer's block, but something like that. I find that pretty terrifying.

Find Write Reason Afraid Pretty

Since the 1980s, I've been known more for my TV work, I used to host 'Live at Jongleurs' and of course 'Grumpy Old Men,' and so it's really all come from there. It's been a funny career really, there are people that know me now as a TV person, a comedian, an interviewer - I've had people genuinely gobsmacked to find out I am a musician.

Work Funny Live Men I Am People

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