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.
BILL BAILEYThe 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.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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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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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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There’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
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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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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
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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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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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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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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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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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