Arthur Askey Quotes

#1. I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

Rupert Graves

#2. With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal.
(after signing Ron Yeats)

Bill Shankly

#3. The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.

John Lennon

#4. The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

Marya Mannes

#5. But with great responsibility, one finds great loneliness."

Sara King

#6. Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

James Frey

#7. Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.

Hazel Hawke

#8. God has already set the date [for judgment]. You may make and break appointments in this life, but this is one appointment you are going to keep.

Billy Graham

#9. Eyelids lowered, bringing his eyelashes into relief against his skin. No eyebrows, but yes to eyelashes. Hair on his head but none on his chest or arms. In this form, did he still have hair in his private regions?

Danielle Monsch

#10. But that would put me on a path that would make me totally divergent from who I am. I don't have to go through the heartache many other people go through, of figuring out what makes them "wealthy." I know what brings me joy.

Ben Sollee

#11. Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

Adam Weishaupt

#12. Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

Howard Nemerov

#13. Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.

Dwight Henry

#14. But she is right, at least in this: Looking to promote oneself at the expense of other women, setting oneself up as a creature unlike any other, is paltry device, and one that has kept us women 'in our place' for as much of time as history can recall.

Sinead Murphy

#15. The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial disturbance since its inception. It should be abolished, not extended.

John Sparkman