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Ronnie Corbett Quotes

In the old days, if you topped the bill one evening, you'd do 22 minutes maximum, and if you overstepped and did 27 one night, you'd get a knock on the door telling you it wasn't acceptable.

Ronnie Corbett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: scottish
Birth: December 4, 1930

Topics

Door Night Evening You Old Days

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

John F. Kennedy

Motivational Happen Things Made

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

Andrea Arnold

Trust Think You Question Always

Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Life Heart Joy Me My Life Him

I thought 'Skyfall' was a sumptuous film.

Matt Smith

Thought Film Sumptuous

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won't do it.

Angelina Jolie

Children Me Too Much Away Something

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

Jeanette Winterson

Love Hurt Self You Place Weak

My heroes were always soccer players.

Ronaldinho

Soccer Always Heroes Players Were

I do things on a whim.

Ruth Wilson

Things Whim

The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them.

Roy Lichtenstein

Work People Looking Thought Museums

I don't think Mr. Snowden woke up one day and had the wherewithal to do this all by himself. I think he was helped by others.

Michael McCaul

Day Think One Day Others Up Woke

Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

Joyce Maynard

Nature Home Child Feel Play Know

While I tend to side with economist Milton Freidman when it comes to free-market economics, there is a place for 'Made in the U.S.A.' where national security is concerned.

Brandon Webb

Economics Security Place Side Where