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Ronnie Barker Quotes

There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.

Ronnie Barker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: english
Birth: September 25, 1929 - October 3, 2005

Topics

Sea Man Performance Pictures Strange

There are lots of great actresses who are great because they'll do anything.

Andie MacDowell

Great Anything Because Who Lots

Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.

Ann Veneman

Health Great Risks Situation Animals

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

Jeff Tweedy

Myself Moment Brain Writing Think

When I speak on work-family issues to audiences around the country, some of the biggest complaints I hear come from individuals who are described by the census as living in 'non-family households.' They resent the fact that their family responsibilities literally don't 'count,' either for society or for their employers.

Stephanie Coontz

Family Society Speak Country Living

I feel like it's important for young African-American girls - and all people - to read books that tell our stories and watch movies that tell our stories and do the research on our own, too, because sometimes that's not being told, and we're not being seen and shown.

Storm Reid

People Research Feel Young Sometimes

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

Roger Ebert

Best Believe End Done I Believe Our

A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

Rodney Dangerfield

Home Girl Day Me Nobody Said

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Mason Cooley

Art Law Interesting You Crime Break

I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.

Jarvis Cocker

Father Parents DJ Find Australia

I enjoy my job, and I will help my state all I can.

Dick Durbin

Job Help Enjoy I Can Will State

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Chuck Palahniuk

Story You More Tell Nonfiction Form

I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

Brad Feld

Marriage Women Men Religion Law Sex