I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
BILLY CONNOLLYWhen people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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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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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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