Ronnie Corbett Quotes

#1. I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump

Ronnie Corbett

#2. The point is to learn to live with roots inside yourself, instead of a thousand stupid rules to guide your day. Who are you without your rules, Elsie? Who would you find if you had the guts to just lie still and let go?

Debora Geary

#3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched.

William McKeen

#4. She wanted only to be feared. I wanted to be feared and loved. I didn't want everything she had as she stood onstage that night. I wanted more.

Alexander Chee

#5. I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

Ronnie Corbett

#6. If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

Stephen King

#7. It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

Ronnie Corbett

#8. A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

Ronnie Corbett

#9. I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart.

Ronnie Corbett

#10. The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

#11. It keeps us ever mindful of life, how it streams by in an awful rush if one is not careful to stop and listen ... and honestly see. (Main character Annie Zook)

Beverly Lewis