Cleese Life Quotes

#1. I played the violin my whole life. I wanted to play from the time I was just a little kid, and I've always loved dance as well. I wanted to make people smile. I wanted to add an extra energy to my playing and make it visual and make it unique and fun.

Lindsey Stirling

#2. Only a few things in life matter a little. The rest don't matter at all.

John Cleese

#3. You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

John Cleese

#4. Wouldn't it be great to stop, if only for a minute on a regular basis, and reflect on how wonderful everything is?

Timber Hawkeye

#5. If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

John Cleese

#6. the Precautionary Principle, a favorite tool of environmentalists to bypass the need for facts as the basis of decision-making.

Tim Ball

#7. The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

John Cleese

#8. You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going to live your life like that.

Kayla Harrison

#9. I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.

John Cleese

#10. Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.

John Cleese

#11. For nothing was simply one thing.

Virginia Woolf

#12. Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

John Cleese

#13. I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.

John Cleese

#14. The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains.

Scott Adams

#15. To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

Pindar

#16. Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

John Cleese

#17. The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

James Hansen

#18. Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

John Cleese

#19. When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

Stellan Skarsgard

#20. The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#21. I could see (though not as clearly as I do now) that one of my biggest problems was me. Because I wanted everyone to like me and to approve of me, I tried to be nice to everyone all the time and this proved a remarkably efficient way of losing control over my life.

John Cleese

#22. His persona seemed very odd to me: it was as though he'd once seen an intellectual, and had spent the rest of his life impersonating him.

John Cleese

#23. I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

John Cleese