I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can’t fly
BILLY CONNOLLYI loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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