Quotes: Poetry

Adam Ant
Da diddley qa qa da diddley qa qa
Da diddley qa qa da diddley qa qa

From 'Stand and Deliver'.

Jill Archer:
Good Gracious! What has that woman got on her head?

Wedding at Lower Loxley - February 2011.

Billy Bragg:
She said it was just a figment of speech.

From 'Walk Away Renee'

Ben Gordon-Smith: 19th Birthday Speech (full text)
DO EPIC SHIT!!!

Roughly translated, I believe this means "Do ambitious and interesting things".

Mary Gordon-Smith: On Philosophers
Their wives would've told them they were wrong, if they had 'em.

18 December 2005

Mary Gordon-Smith: On Artists
Delacroix did a lot of lions biting things.

August 2011

Rosie Gordon-Smith: Aged two, on seeing her baby brother Ben for the first time
He's got feet!

Previously it had seemed that all babies consisted of a head wrapped in a blanket.

Groucho Marx: On Clubs
I sent the club a wire stating,

PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION.
I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB
THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Joni Mitchell: On Love
I remember that time that you told me, you said
Love is touching souls.

From 'A Case of You'.

Viv Stanshall: As Sir Henry, in bulldog mood
Do you know what a palmist once said to me. She said:-
WILL YOU LET GO!

From 'Sir Henry at Rawlinson End'.

Mark Twain: On his father
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.