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 BAILEYWhy 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.’
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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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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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don’t have these.
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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.
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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 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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I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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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.
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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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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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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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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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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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