Sandi Toksvig Quotes

#1. In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.

William Poundstone

#2. It's not so easy... it's not possible.

Deyth Banger

#3. Mary was a famous fairground attraction but she doesn't really count as she rather famously turned out to be a monkey.

Sandi Toksvig

#4. I used to look at Jinks and marvel at her smooth complexion, but over the years I have come to realise that she has been spared wrinkles by virtue of never having succumbed to heavy thought.

Sandi Toksvig

#5. No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Diane Ackerman

#6. I like frogs. I am not crazy about their legs in a buffet, but I like their casual approach to life.

Sandi Toksvig

#7. Sigh. Here's another fine woman that historians can't believe was real. Of course she was real. Not only is there a splendid Chinese poem called "The Ballad of Mulan", there is also n excellent cartoon by Disney.

Sandi Toksvig

#8. Just as everything that happens outside in the physical world requires energy, everything that happens inside requires an expenditure of energy.

Michael A. Singer

#9. I'll make a diet cheesecake, but I'll put it in a Sara Lee box. Or I'll have a huge bowl of pasta, but it's actually just a cup of pasta - the rest is vegetables. It makes me feel less deprived.

Stephen Furst

#10. Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.

Anna Held

#11. I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.

Sandi Toksvig