Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
BILLY CONNOLLYWhen you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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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 spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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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 used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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