robotnic’s Edited Quotes

I know it may look like I was being a bitch, but that's only because I was acting like a bitch.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake.

He is a national treasure and a personal treasure, too. I share him with the nation.

I don't need you to remind me of my age, I have a bladder to do that for me.

Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me. But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.

You sort of let it go and think it’s not going to be the book, it’s someone else’s idea of the book, the basic difference being that a novel is about interior life and a film about exterior life.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end... but not necessarily in that order.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

I am officially Captain Slow on the programme. I can drive quite quickly round the track, I've done it a bit, and I think fast track driving is a little like playing the bagpipes, you know, a gentleman can - but doesn't.

Me, we.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love -- it's being unhappy together.

I think people love to root for the underdog and they especially like it when they break out in song.

We're sorry for the massive disruption it's caused to their lives. There's no one who wants this thing over more than I do, I'd like my life back.

I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy, "Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?" He said, "I don't know." I said, "I don't want your job."

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

I ain't dirty! I washed my face and hands before I come, I did.

Villager: We have found a witch, may we burn her?
Crowd: Burn her!
Sir Bedevere: But how do you know she's a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt!
Sir Bedevere: A newt?
Peasant 3: ... I got better.