Joanna Lumley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Mother #Dog #Believe
Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Flower #Animal #Bird
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Space #Skins #Study
To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Book #Skills #Judging
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Political #Freedom Of Speech #Suffering
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Kitchen #Bed #Toys
I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Jobs #Thinking #Effort
I find it a great antidote lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Mirrors #Hairspray #Antidote
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Bird #Tree #Kenya
I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Bus #Being True #Feels
We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Pregnancy #Eight #Males
I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Blessing #Granddaughter #Fit
If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Fun #Thinking #Giving
I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away
-- Joanna Lumley

#Blessed #Giving #Charity
I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Thinking #Mind #Bending
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Rooms #Next
Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Mother #Taken #Animal
I dont think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Men #Thinking #Glamour
I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Book #Cat #Good Friend
I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Social #Constraints
I prefer not to eat food that has a face.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Faces #Vegetarian
It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.
-- Joanna Lumley

#Blow #Feet #Lions

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