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. We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#5. If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

Richard Askey

#6. Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.

Roni Askey-Doran

#7. Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many examples and no single way of looking at them can illuminate all examples or even all the important properties of a single example of a special function.

Richard Askey

#8. Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums, I'm sure.

Henry Cavill

#9. The cold cut like a many bladed knife

Israel Zangwill

#10. I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can be excited and know what's up with me.

Erika Christensen

#11. He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

Eleanor Farjeon

#12. To truly know what is good in life you must experience the bad as well.

Various

#13. To be able to be oneself and not have to disown one's values to please another - That is what intimate love is all about.

Milton Avery

#14. It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness.

Roni Askey-Doran

#15. I know a woman loves me when she leaves me leftovers in the fridge from the date she went on the night before.

Jarod Kintz