I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
You don't have to be aperson of influenceto be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
A triviality is a statement whose opposite is false. However, a great truth is a statement whose opposite may well be another great truth.
'Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.
Accountants and market researchers may be brilliant at examining and analysing facts about the past, but they have no forward vision.
Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!
Throne of Glassreaders tend to be passionate, talented, clever, and welcoming - in fact, I'm consistently moved by just how welcomingTOGreaders are to new fans.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
I don't make jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a lot and then I realised that a lot of the things I've started going for are a little bit more refined. I liked the fact that I was supporting a British brand, somebody I could have a relationship with and people that I could talk to.