Morecambe Quotes

#1. We became Morris and Morecambe. This partnership did not last long, however.

Ernie Wise

#2. It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.

Bruce Forsyth

#3. One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, 'Why don't we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?'

Ann Winterton

#4. I never give anyone advice: it can backfire horribly. In the 1950s, Eric Morecambe told Ken Dodd to get his teeth fixed. But those teeth turned out to be one of Dodd's big selling points.

Paul Merton

#5. By the age of 13, I knew I wanted to be a comedian like Morecambe and Wise. So, obviously, I thought I'd better start practising my interviews for Parkinson. Don't look shocked - I wasn't the only teenager to imagine that. Though I may have been the only one to have chosen T'Pau as my walk-on music.

Miranda Hart

#6. The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

Dawn French

#7. Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.

Joni Mitchell

#8. Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.

Tana French

#9. I'm not looking for answers when I show up to the set. I'm just asking the questions, over and over.

Timothy Olyphant

#10. Though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the buying public, the purveyor of thoughts or ideas has no remedy when such thoughts or ideas are deliberately and purposefully falsified to the world through the press.

Marie Corelli

#11. We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

Eric Morecambe

#12. I always play the sweet girl next door.

Tiffany Dupont

#13. I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

Eric Morecambe

#14. I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.

Eric Morecambe

#15. Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.

Wale

#16. We Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the only one that ever rose from the dead. We believe that every death-bed is a resurrection; that from every grave the stone, is rolled away.

Charles Spurgeon

#17. I get airsick just licking an airmail stamp.

Eric Morecambe

#18. I always take my wife morning tea in my pyjamas. But is she grateful? No, she says she'd rather have it in a cup.

Eric Morecambe

#19. My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

Eric Morecambe

#20. Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

Eric Morecambe

#21. Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on.

Austin Peck

#22. Civility is not simply about manners.

Jim Leach

#23. I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didn't spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite ... bonding with him, in a weird way.

Teddy Thompson

#24. The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

T. S. Eliot

#25. I have a theory that while a man might not always get the wife he wants or needs, he always gets the wife he deserves.

Marlon James

#26. I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.

Tamora Pierce

#27. Don't feel guilty about the pleasures you take in the things you enjoy.

Austin Kleon

#28. The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.

Ron Luce