Dead Parrot Sketch Quotes

#1. I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.

Rhianna Pratchett

#2. There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Agatha Christie

#3. Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Simone Weil

#4. You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.

Josh Lanyon

#5. Whenever people asked "How are you?" by way of social nicety I lied through my teeth. "Not too bad," I'd say. Or "Swings and roundabouts." At least I didn't say "Fine, thanks." or "A livid scar cuts across my very being.

Julia Leigh

#6. No one is fearless. The difference between achievers and everyone else is that they take action despite their fears.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#7. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napoleon Hill

#8. I know that I personally have felt quite happy because I've done what I wanted to do. I pursued my interests and have thus managed to combine my business with lots of fun. I guess my only advice is to do what you enjoy, and try to do your best with it.

Jim Henson

#9. Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. We [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.

Arthur C. Brooks

#10. FIGURE 3.16 Trading Momentum in GS, December 2009

Adam H. Grimes