Funny Idle Quotes

#1. The earth doesn't move backward (very much) when you walk only because it's much more massive than you are.

K.C. Cole

#2. It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.

Neil Jackson

#3. Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words.

Sorin Cerin

#4. Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

Eric Idle

#5. One's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

George Eliot

#6. Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

Romulus Linney

#7. It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.

Eric Idle

#8. Madame will forgive me for not perceiving her busyness. It is a sign of the highest breeding to be able to be busy whilst appearing idle to the uninformed observer.

Louis De Bernieres

#9. You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.

Eric Idle

#10. To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

Eric Idle

#11. People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Anton Chekhov

#12. In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.

Eraldo Banovac

#13. Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

Sergei Dovlatov

#14. The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

Anne Truitt

#15. Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.

Eric Idle

#16. Love simply is where it is. My host loved Curt's host, and that love did not die when the ownership of the minds changed.

Stephenie Meyer

#17. I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

Eric Idle

#18. I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks.

Charles Dickens

#19. I am all that I grok.

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

Eric Idle

#21. A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

Edward Abbey

#22. Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

Eric Idle