Richard Madeley famous quotes

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That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.
-- Richard Madeley

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When we first got together, one of the things me and Judy had in common was a passion for the correct use of the apostrophe
-- Richard Madeley

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Your short-term memory really is shot! It must drive you nuts!!
-- Richard Madeley

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IT'S funny. It doesn't work the other way round !
-- Richard Madeley

#Way
YOU'RE just humming with sexual energy! Is it the fabric? Is it wearing tights?
-- Richard Madeley

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WOMEN lie about sex. It doesn't matter how many partners she says she's had before you. She's lying.
-- Richard Madeley

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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.
It's better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles left for itself.
...I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus.
Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who â€˜predictedâ€™ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values.

Richard Madeley famous quotes

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