Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
BILL BAILEYContentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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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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.
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I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
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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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How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! …no eight!
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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.
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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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Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
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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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You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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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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But our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
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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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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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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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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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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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