Kenny Everett Best Quotes

#1. Vorobyaninov, I've got a pressing artistic task for you,' he whispered. 'Go over to the exit from the first-class hallway and stand there. If somebody approaches, start singing, loudly.'
The old man was taken aback. 'But what should I sing?'
'Not "God Save the Tsar," that's for sure!

Ilya Ilf

#2. Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

Steve Daines

#3. When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher.

Kenny Everett

#4. I intended only lilies. That was my intention: a bouquet of lilies. - The Magician

Kate DiCamillo

#5. Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.

Kenny Everett

#6. An element of propaganda, of sales and marketing, always intervened between the inner and the outer person.

Julian Barnes

#7. Wow. Death by books. That would have been some way to go.

Beth Reekles

#8. Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.

Tom Waits

#9. Kind of like Batman. On a motorcycle.

Joanna Wylde

#10. First he sympathized with Cuba, then with China, and when the cruelty of their regimes began to appall him, he resigned himself with a sigh to a sea of words with no weight and no resemblance to life.

Milan Kundera

#11. All writers are insane!

Cornelia Funke

#12. The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

Henry Ford

#13. here we were again , always saying good-bye

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.

Peter Ackroyd