"I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there to see it."

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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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"I wasn't motivated to do it until rather recently, when it occurred to me, on one of my rare relistenings to that early recording, that it was very nice, but that it was perhaps a little bit like thir…"

— Glenn Gould

Music1932–1982

#time

"I don't understand it completely … but she adores me. She thinks I'm funny. … My attitude towards communication has always been: it's a slippery slope, because you start communicating, the next thing …"

— William H. Macy

Entertainment1950

#life

"One of the fatal mistakes that almost every science-fiction film makes is that they spend so much time on the settings — you know, creating the environment — that they spend film time on it. And you d…"

— George Lucas

Business1840–1912

#writing

"There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a w…"

— Theodore Roosevelt

Politics1858–1919

#success