Erm Quotes

#1. Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

Kamal Ahmed

#2. Loads of weirdos send me things, like strange bits of leather. And then there was the guy who thought I was having his baby. Apparently, he's been writing to Princess Anne too, so I clearly belong to a good, erm, sub-section of society.

Konnie Huq

#3. Good one," said Ron, copying it down. "Because of . . . erm . . . Mercury. Why don't you get stabbed in the back by someone you thought was a friend?" "Yeah . . . cool . . ." said Harry, scribbling it down, "because . . . Venus is in the twelfth house.

J.K. Rowling

#4. Things will get really screwed up, right?"
"Erm ... maybe."
"Maybe, like how?"
"Ever wanted to go sledding in the Mojave Desert?

Julie Kagawa

#5. Good evening," said Ronan. "Students, are you? And do you learn much, up at the school?"
"Erm -"
"A bit," said Hermione timidly.
"A bit. Well, that's something." Ronan sighed.

J.K. Rowling

#6. We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.

Donald Rumsfeld

#7. GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.

David Bowie

#8. She nods. "We have five knives, two guns, and a big hole."
I look up into her innocent blue eyes and try not to smile. "Erm, okay."
"If you do anything bad, I will shoot you and put you in the hole."
Aah. Now I see why she was rattling off the inventory.

Beckie Stevenson

#9. We need to be able to control - erm, guide the masses that can't help control themselves.

Brad McKinniss

#10. We try to ... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

Tony Hancock

#11. People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'

Peter Baynham

#12. The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.

Yanis Varoufakis

#13. When I get asked, 'what are the differences between Twilight and THG' I'm like, 'Erm, what are the similarities?'

Jennifer Lawrence

#14. And what do you like to do, little man?" "I like-books," James had said. While standing in the bookshop, with a parcel of books under his arm. The lady had given him a pitying look. "I read-erm-rather a lot," James went on, dreary master of the obvious. King of the obvious. Emperor of the obvious.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Erm, I don't really have any regrets.

Bobby Farrelly

#16. CHILD: Mummy, who was Hitler? MOTHER: Hitler? CHILD: Yeah. Who was he? MOTHER: Erm, he was a very bad man from a long time ago. CHILD: Oh. How bad? MOTHER: He was like ... he was like Voldemort. CHILD: Oh! That's really, really bad. Mother: Yes. CHILD: (Pause) So, did Harry Potter kill Hitler, too?

Jen Campbell

#17. And erm, perhaps looking like this it was perhaps the only thing I could do.

Tony Hancock

#18. Erm.. dear, do I ride out for Apocalypses?' Mrs War took the lid off the saucepan and prodded viciously at something inside. 'No, dear,' she said firmly. 'You always come down with a cold.

Terry Pratchett

#19. And you are?'
'Erm . . Professor N'gomo.' said Edith waving her badge in what she supposed was a casual way.

Anna Moore

#20. Okay, well, on Borelletrox V, the males are kept completely isolated from all images of the female until Binding Day and the females are, erm, let's just say they've' got a lot of--

Jackson Lanzing

#21. A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

Michael J. Gelb

#22. She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in underwear ... "
"And in boyfriends," I added impishly.
Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that

Darren Shan

#23. He became a solitary, belonging to that tragic class of active men prematurely deprived of activity; swimmers barred from the water or actors banished from the stage.

John Le Carre

#24. background. 5. Rubin's vase

Freda McManus

#25. So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

Ron Perlman

#26. Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

Francis Bacon

#27. I love the fact that I get something new to do almost every day and have new challenges.

Jim Lee