Bristow Quotes

#1. As an energetic Socialist, I do my best to see the good that is in him, but it's hard. Comrade Bristow's the most striking argument against the equality of man I've ever come across.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. Better we see them seeing us, because then we can all see together, but when not seeing them seeing us we might not see them seeing us doing what we are doing. MI5 agent Iona von Ustinov (father of actor Peter Ustinov) to MI6 agent Desmond Bristow about the PDVE (Portuguese Secret Police) in 1944.

Desmond Bristow

#3. From the moment he held her, and looked into her eyes, he was a changed man. He'd held that tiny girl in his arms that moment; he would hold her in his heart forever. p. 20 Joe Bristow on being a father

Jennifer Donnelly

#4. I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

Victor Garber

#5. When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

Sid Waddell

#6. Charley Bristow paced his small living room. Celibacy was burning a hole in his pants.

Dana Glossbrenner

#7. At that time in IBM you had to wear a white shirt, dark pants and a black tie with your badge stapled to your shoulder or something," said Steve Bristow, an engineer. "At Atari the work people did counted more than how they looked.

Walter Isaacson

#8. Every student should know that statues are meant for sitting. If we're to endure their terrible old faces leering at us, the least they can do is offer shade or a comfortable perch.
Nigel Bristow to Max McDaniels

Henry H. Neff

#9. Ever since I've been 16, 15, that's all I've been doing: playing darts.

Eric Bristow

#10. By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.

Eric Bristow

#11. You can't drink too many otherwise you can't see what you're throwing at.

Eric Bristow

#12. My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.

Eric Bristow

#13. The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.

Eric Bristow

#14. You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.

Gwen Bristow

#15. Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future - falls into place.

Kyle Bristow

#16. I'm not on Twitter or Facebook and don't even use email. I don't trust computers: one day they'll all break down, and everyone will be knackered.

Eric Bristow

#17. I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

Eric Bristow

#18. Hopefully I've given something back to darts, which has been brilliant to me. Hopefully I made it a bit popular when I first started; I was part of the breakaway, and I also created a monster, so I think I've done a little bit.

Eric Bristow

#19. Trouble is, I don't get to play a lot at the moment because I've just signed a contract where I've got to do 200 shows a year in pubs, so the golf's fallen away a bit.

Eric Bristow

#20. I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.

Eric Bristow

#21. If you are running subconscious beliefs that you are not good enough, this will be reflected in various areas of your life, for example, your relationship, your weight, your job as well as your finances.

Mark Bristow

#22. I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

Eric Bristow

#23. I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.

Eric Bristow

#24. We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.

Gwen Bristow

#25. Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.

Eric Bristow

#26. When Phil Taylor is in the field - no matter whether it's tiddlywinks or the world championship at Alexandra Palace - he is the man to beat.

Eric Bristow

#27. No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.

Gwen Bristow

#28. Any sport where people earn a lot of money you are going to get groupies.

Eric Bristow

#29. I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.

Eric Bristow

#30. It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

Eric Bristow

#31. Uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted ... they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.

Gwen Bristow

#32. I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.

Eric Bristow

#33. It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

Eric Bristow

#34. All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

Eric Bristow

#35. Being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.

Gwen Bristow

#36. I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

Eric Bristow

#37. Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

Eric Bristow

#38. Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.

Gwen Bristow

#39. We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.

Gwen Bristow

#40. You eat when you're hungry, and I'm not normally hungry in the mornings.

Eric Bristow

#41. I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.

Eric Bristow

#42. My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.

Eric Bristow

#43. The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.

Gwen Bristow