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 CONNOLLYI think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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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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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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