Lonnie Donegan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.
-- Lonnie Donegan

#Pigs #Iron #Fooled
I always thought I was singing American folk music.
-- Lonnie Donegan

#Singing #Folks #Folk Music
Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?
-- Lonnie Donegan

#Mother #Doe #Unanswered Questions

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.
Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.
The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
We won't get fooled again!

Lonnie Donegan famous quotes

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