Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
BILL BAILEYThere’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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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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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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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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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we’re united and enjoy life – Without unity we are victims. Stay united.
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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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I’m a vegetarian, I’m not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they’re nearly fish aren’t they.
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I’m quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
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How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! …no eight!
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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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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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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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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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Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
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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 know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
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A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the long face?”. The horse replies: “I’m deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law.”
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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people’s doors and running away. God that was a good game.
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I’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.
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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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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.
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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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