People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
BILLY CONNOLLYPeople die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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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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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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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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didn’t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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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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