Da diddley qa qa da diddley qa qaAnon
Da diddley qa qa da diddley qa qaFrom 'Stand and Deliver'.
Energy forecasting was invented to make economic forecasting look good.Jill Archer:Quoted in 'Planetary Economics: Energy, climate change and the three domains of sustainable development', Michael Grubb, 2014.
Good Gracious! What has that woman got on her head?Rhona Cameron:Wedding at Lower Loxley - February 2011.
Sometimes I'm patronising. Sometimes I'm sarcastic. Sometimes he's (Nigel Benn) hot-headed. Sometimes Nell says nothing. Sometimes Uri dramatises little things like farts like he's an alien who's never seen one before. Sometimes Tony misses things because he's slightly slower. Sometimes Tara is like a child who's never been able to make a cup of tea. Sometimes, sometimes we are all like that, OK? That's life, that's personalities.Billy Bragg:This was Rhona being magnificent in the TV program "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!" when tensions between the participants became unbearable for her.
She said it was just a figment of speech.Ben Gordon-Smith: 19th Birthday Speech (full text)From 'Walk Away Renee'
DO EPIC SHIT!!!Ben Gordon-Smith: On technologyRoughly translated, I believe this means "Do ambitious and interesting things".
Because of predictive text I never give a duck.Mary Gordon-Smith: On Philosophers2 September 2018
Their wives would've told them they were wrong, if they had 'em.Mary Gordon-Smith: On Artists18 December 2005
Delacroix did a lot of lions biting things.Mary Gordon-Smith: Commenting on the observation that since 1948, the word 'criteria' has been used in both the singular sense and in the pluralAugust 2011
'Criterion' now is the name of a cinema.Mary Gordon-Smith: On a certain style of art writingMarch 2013
... all that spiritual airy fairy floating women stuff.Mary Gordon-Smith: On plants pushing through the gaps between paving stones in the gardenNovember 2012
We’ve got a better class of weed this year.Mary Gordon-Smith: On plantsJune 2021
I disapprove of petunias... but I’m coming round to them.Mary Gordon-Smith: On plantsMay 2025
Begonias are a step too far.North Africa Campaign Veteran: In the market square in Sudbury, Suffolk. There was a group of young women in leotards doing energetic excercises. He said:-circa 2015
We could have done with them in the Western Desert.Rosie Gordon-Smith: Aged two, on seeing her baby brother Ben for the first timecirca 1990
He's got feet!Rosie Gordon-Smith: On the Christmas 2017 TV SchedulePreviously it had seemed that all babies consisted of a head wrapped in a blanket.
They haven't really thought about this.Rosie Gordon-Smith: On Joanna Lumley
If I met her I would curtsy or something.Wenchi Lucas: On buying clothesMarch 2013
Even if it’s new I wash them. Except for socks.Wenchi Lucas: On her current art projectJuly 2012
I have painted a Nubian goat.Groucho Marx: On ClubsJuly 2014
I sent the club a wire stating,Paul R. Halmos: On Set Theory
PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION.
I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB
THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
However important set theory may be now, when it began some scholars considered it a disease from which, it was to be hoped, mathematics would soon recover.Joni Mitchell: On LoveFrom "Naive Set Theory".
I remember that time that you told me, you saidViv Stanshall: As Sir Henry, in bulldog mood
Love is touching souls.From 'A Case of You'.
Do you know what a palmist once said to me. She said:-Kier Starmer: On institutional inertia.WILL YOU LET GO!From 'Sir Henry at Rawlinson End'.
But I do think too many people in Whitehall are comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline.Mark Twain: On his fatherPrime Minister's speech on Plan for Change: 5 December 2024
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.Rhys Williams: On junk food
My body is a temple but its been taken over by a gang of students.On first date with Fallon. November 2012