Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
BILL BAILEYI’m English, and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.
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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I’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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I think we’ve missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro… to catch whatever it is that’s forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it’s a bit of a long shot.
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There we go, that’s it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
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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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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we’re still alive, before we die.
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I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
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I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars… I’m not bitter at all.
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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