More from Bill Bailey
I’m quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey There’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey The reason we’d stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Stupid National Anthem… Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? “Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit.”
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying ‘Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.’
Bill BaileyBill Bailey I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn’t just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
Bill BaileyBill Bailey
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From our community writers
Our only limitation is that we only believe what is visible to our eyes and audible to our ears.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel Some days, you will be close to the finish line and still not make it.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell HooksBell Hooks I separated someplace for each person in my heart, But she claimed to be the owner of it.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander Modern-day love stories are born not out of love, but a tired mind and a restless heart.
Puneet MehraPuneet Mehra Forcing things only creates more tension in the mind. Let go.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase It doesn’t take courage to find peace in the arms of destiny. It takes faith.
Anamika GargAnamika Garg I can’t wait to collect memories from every corner of the earth to splash in the vastness of this beautiful world.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry
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More on possess
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
Henry JamesHenry James I would lay down everything i possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn’t love, it’s the best i have.
Becca FitzpatrickBecca Fitzpatrick Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
Sabrina CarpenterSabrina Carpenter Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
Sabrina CarpenterSabrina Carpenter But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham
