Jasper Carrott Quotes

There's a rumour going 'round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your driving licence, the authorities will make you take your test again! Now, if ever there was an incentive to drive carefully, they could not have threatened a more terrifying ordeal.

Jasper Carrott

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I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'

Jerry Lewis

WifeThinkYouDownKnowTenacity

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

John Lennon

GoKnowRockWillFirstRoll

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.

Jeff Buckley

BeautifulDarknessWordsVoiceYou

You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that have been created in the history of humanity. But that's too passive.

Steven Strogatz

BeautifulHistoryReadingYouGet

I'm going to do more movies and travel.

Tommy Wiseau

TravelMoviesMoreGoing

On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

Roger Ebert

LifeBeautifulWorldProcessLiving

Consciousness-one level is understanding where we are in space. Consciousness two is where we understand our position in society: who's top dog, who's underdog and who's in the middle. And type-three consciousness is simulating the future. And type-three consciousness, only humans have this ability to see far into the future.

Michio Kaku

DogFutureSpaceSocietyUnderdog

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Louis Armstrong

MusicMusiciansStopMoreRetire

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jon Brion

YouPlaceDialogueEverythingUsed

I imagine that, for most people, acting isn't something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most viable option. No adults around me knew how to do anything else.

Johnny Flynn

PeopleMeThinkActingAnythingHow

Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.

Diane Paulus

TimeMomentCreativeMePresentYou

We all should be concerned if our kids don't know who Sandra Day O'Connor, John Adams, and Ronald Reagan are.

Doug Ducey

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