I don’t aim to offend.
BILLY CONNOLLYPeople die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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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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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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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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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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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 started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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