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Ronnie was pure gold in triplicate - as a performer, a writer and a friend.
RONNIE CORBETT How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES![]()
After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II
this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'
ABBI JACOBSON A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON I loved the fact that he was a hardworking man, and I saw him all those years to be a great father a...
DEB MILLINGTON I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other ...
ANDY DALY![]()
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE![]()
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA![]()
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS![]()
Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.
Não há senão um caminho. Procure entrar ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE![]()
The successful men I admired all built their bodies.
DWAYNE JOHNSON I had all those young guys in Green Bay all at once. It was a little scary having all young quarterb...
MIKE HOLMGREN![]()
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER I can't think of anyone who knew how to play comedy better than Ronnie Barker and I count myself eno...
MICHAEL PALIN A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD It was certainly an adjustment I had to make coming in as a young player all those years ago, ... I ...
YOLANDA GRIFFITH![]()
I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the year...
DAVID SIMON When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious ch...
TAMARA TUNIE Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.
RONNIE CORBETT I just keep jogging along, and people seem to like me. And for that I am very grateful.
RONNIE CORBETT I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my...
RONNIE CORBETT Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a differen...
RONNIE CORBETT I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety a...
RONNIE CORBETT You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people ...
RONNIE CORBETT I have had the most spoiled golfing life.
RONNIE CORBETT We did Donald McGill, seaside-postcard stuff - middle of the road.
RONNIE CORBETT Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's w...
RONNIE CORBETT A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the loo...
RONNIE CORBETT Part of my style was getting into a muddle. Audiences think that's part of the act. Sometimes it...
RONNIE CORBETT Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you i...
RONNIE CORBETT We found a completely new audience.
RONNIE CORBETT It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.
RONNIE CORBETT David Frost plucked me from the nightclubs.
RONNIE CORBETT I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any da...
RONNIE CORBETT I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 195...
RONNIE CORBETT In the old days, if you topped the bill one evening, you'd do 22 minutes maximum, and if you ove...
RONNIE CORBETT I have been trapped in some posh toilets, including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, a...
RONNIE CORBETT Não há nada que nos pareça tão inútil como as nossas cóleras, quando as evocamos tempos depois...
FERREIRA DE CASTRO I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so th...
SIGMAR POLKE Ronnie was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh.
MICHAEL PALIN I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, ...
GALE GORDON![]()
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at sch...
NASIM PEDRAD![]()
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ...
WAYNE NEWTON I talk to Ronnie two or three times a week,
RICKY WILLIAMS I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I h...
DAN BUCATINSKY I have done a sketch show almost every year since I started in 1975. I have also had a go several ti...
LENNY HENRY When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM HESCHEL![]()
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL![]()
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL I knew they had a lot of young guys, but their young guys have been playing a lot longer than our yo...
KYLE DAVIES Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER![]()
Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack. . . had a...
WHITNEY HOUSTON![]()
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE![]()
Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'...
WHIT STILLMAN All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if ...
MACKENZIE CROOK I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.
JOHANN OLAV KOSS![]()
I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for...
GEORGE LOPEZ![]()
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
MAHATMA GANDHI![]()
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
OSCAR WILDE They've (the coaches) been saying all year to go to the net. Ronnie made a great play.
JODY SHELLEY This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
HORACE WALPOLE The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
HORACE WALPOLE![]()
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS![]()
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE![]()
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.
BOBBY DARIN![]()
I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album.
STEPHEN COLBERT A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA![]()
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE![]()
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY![]()
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE![]()
Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS![]()
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
JEFF KINNEY
RONNIE CORBETT How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
After Rilke's Letters-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II
this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'
ABBI JACOBSON A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON I loved the fact that he was a hardworking man, and I saw him all those years to be a great father a...
DEB MILLINGTON I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other ...
ANDY DALY
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subo... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.Não há senão um caminho. Procure entrar ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE
The successful men I admired all built their bodies. DWAYNE JOHNSON I had all those young guys in Green Bay all at once. It was a little scary having all young quarterb...
MIKE HOLMGREN
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER I can't think of anyone who knew how to play comedy better than Ronnie Barker and I count myself eno...
MICHAEL PALIN A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD It was certainly an adjustment I had to make coming in as a young player all those years ago, ... I ...
YOLANDA GRIFFITH
I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the year... DAVID SIMON When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious ch...
TAMARA TUNIE Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.
RONNIE CORBETT I just keep jogging along, and people seem to like me. And for that I am very grateful.
RONNIE CORBETT I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my...
RONNIE CORBETT Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a differen...
RONNIE CORBETT I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety a...
RONNIE CORBETT You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people ...
RONNIE CORBETT I have had the most spoiled golfing life.
RONNIE CORBETT We did Donald McGill, seaside-postcard stuff - middle of the road.
RONNIE CORBETT Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's w...
RONNIE CORBETT A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the loo...
RONNIE CORBETT Part of my style was getting into a muddle. Audiences think that's part of the act. Sometimes it...
RONNIE CORBETT Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you i...
RONNIE CORBETT We found a completely new audience.
RONNIE CORBETT It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.
RONNIE CORBETT David Frost plucked me from the nightclubs.
RONNIE CORBETT I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any da...
RONNIE CORBETT I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 195...
RONNIE CORBETT In the old days, if you topped the bill one evening, you'd do 22 minutes maximum, and if you ove...
RONNIE CORBETT I have been trapped in some posh toilets, including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, a...
RONNIE CORBETT Não há nada que nos pareça tão inútil como as nossas cóleras, quando as evocamos tempos depois...
FERREIRA DE CASTRO I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so th...
SIGMAR POLKE Ronnie was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh.
MICHAEL PALIN I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, ...
GALE GORDON
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at sch...
NASIM PEDRAD
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ...
WAYNE NEWTON I talk to Ronnie two or three times a week,
RICKY WILLIAMS I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I h...
DAN BUCATINSKY I have done a sketch show almost every year since I started in 1975. I have also had a go several ti...
LENNY HENRY When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM HESCHEL
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL I knew they had a lot of young guys, but their young guys have been playing a lot longer than our yo...
KYLE DAVIES Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack. . . had a... WHITNEY HOUSTON
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. JEAN RACINE
Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'... WHIT STILLMAN All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if ...
MACKENZIE CROOK I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.
JOHANN OLAV KOSS
I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for... GEORGE LOPEZ
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. MAHATMA GANDHI
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. OSCAR WILDE They've (the coaches) been saying all year to go to the net. Ronnie made a great play.
JODY SHELLEY This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
HORACE WALPOLE The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
HORACE WALPOLE
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?''Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.
BOBBY DARIN
I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album. STEPHEN COLBERT A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS
…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS
Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE
Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?""I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
JEFF KINNEY
The probability of meeting someone you know increases a hundredfold when you're with someone you're ... 
I don't need a psychiatrist to prod into my personal life and make me tell them all my secrets, I ha... 
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. 
To be honest, we donate to projects that we think are meaningful. How society views it or how we are... 
Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying ... 