Terry Thomas Quotes

#1. Being asked to play one of the butlers is like being picked to play for England. All you have to do is think of the great butlers from the past - Terry-Thomas in 'How To Murder Your Wife,' John Gielgud in 'Arthur' and Denholm Elliott in 'Trading Places.'

Mark Williams

#2. I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

Terry Pratchett

#3. Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

Dan Jenkins

#4. Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used

Terry-Thomas

#5. Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.

Immanuel Kant

#6. Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.

Ashton Kutcher

#7. Her perfume enveloped him as he reached for her. His hands smoothed over soft fabric before finding the warmth of her skin. She lifted her mouth to his and kissed him hungrily, greedily.
She tasted so good. Like sin. Like every dirty thought he'd ever had.

Sarah Mayberry

#8. The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#9. If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

Charles Mackay

#10. Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!

Charles Dickens

#11. Whatever the outcome of the day I shall never forget that you hit me when I wasn't even looking!

Terry-Thomas

#12. Thanks, Terry, so much for letting God use you - I'm really enjoying life with Him now.

Terry C. Thomas

#13. The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to people that means Mexicans and Canadians are a bit at risk if we want to be literal about the Bible.

John Shelby Spong

#14. 'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.

Michael Irvin

#15. The only people who ever get any place interesting are the people who get lost. That's why the planets are so much better company than the stars - they keep wandering back and forth across the sky and you never know where you're going to find them.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

Francis Crick

#17. His tip hit her core, both of them yelling. She bucked upward at the touch, her hands clutching his shoulders. "Holy shit!" Luke cried. He breathed hard through his nose. "That as... I'm not sure... I think I might lose it...

Amanda Carlson

#18. The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

Sandra Lerner

#19. Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.

Terry-Thomas