Maureen Lipman Quotes

#1. I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities.

Josip Broz Tito

#2. A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.

Maureen Lipman

#3. There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

Bob Dylan

#4. As for blondes having more fun, well, let me dispel that rumor forever. They do.

Maureen Lipman

#5. Always have the highest bar for yourself. Wake up everyday and no matter how crappy you feel, want to change something for the better. Do something that makes someone happy. Create something that inspires someone. Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

Dave Grohl

#6. Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?

Maureen Lipman

#7. Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.

Maureen Lipman

#8. Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.

Shakuntala Devi

#9. Marriage is one of the most important institutions we have, it binds society and families together, it is a building block that promotes stability. This bill supports and cultivates marriage.

Maria Miller

#10. Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.

Maureen Lipman

#11. The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

Cate Marvin

#12. Did you ever meet a mother that complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither.

Maureen Lipman

#13. I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation.

Maureen Lipman

#14. Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.

Maureen Lipman

#15. The U.S. dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without printing the dollars to do so, and enmeshed in an economic depression. The clock is ticking until the dollar faces a crisis of confidence like every other bubble before it.

Peter Schiff

#16. I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.

ASAP Rocky

#17. I've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right, then generally speaking, so am I.

Maureen Lipman

#18. My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.

Maureen Lipman

#19. You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.

Maureen Lipman

#20. What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations.

Maureen Lipman