"We came from the sea originally, now we're going back in it. Don't go in it, unless you're in a boat."

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“I think some bacteria have better lives than that”

“If you had 5 photos of anuses, I could not point mine out”

“Now Hilda, she was your bog standard old woman.”

“You know that guy Richard Blackwood? He went in for a colonic, live TV. Never seen again.”

“Whats good with a holiday right.. say if you work in a factory from 8 in the morning till 8 at night, packin socks into a rubber bag right.. between 8 and.. what time did i say he finishes?”

“If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about. - Karl interprets the phrase Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.”

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"In Edinburgh? I quite like the City Cafe. Because you never get served in there. And I like the idea that you can go in there for three hours and still not get your order. I think that’s quite funny. …"

— Noel Fielding

Entertainment1973

#friendship

"Sunny’s with him on the run - his friend Sunny is a gun."

— Ike Moriz

Music1972

#friendship

"Had Japan been a tenth as wise as Abraham Lincoln, had Hitler been a hundredth part as sensible, we today, the United States and England, would not have a chance in this war. Had those two enemies of …"

— Pearl S. Buck

Literature1892–1973

#war

"I published that theory in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil record is very incomplete because some species fossilize better than others... I noted t…"

— Ernst Mayr

Science1904–2005

#time