You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey.
BILL BAILEYThe so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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.’
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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I tend to go through periods worrying, “Where am I going, I can’t see a way out of this,” and it becomes quite stressful. But sometimes you have to take a bet on yourself.
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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There’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
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The so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing.
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But our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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What I’d like to do now – well, what I’d like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.
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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that’s undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.
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