Rolf Harris famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.
-- Rolf Harris

#Finishing #World #Faces
If it's free put me down for two please
-- Rolf Harris

#Two #Economics #Please
When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your sleep too... as for my catch phrase, I didn't actually say so much 'Can you see what it is yet?
-- Rolf Harris

#Sleep #Long #Tvs
When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.
-- Rolf Harris

#Self #Portraits #Draws
I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.
-- Rolf Harris

#Feelings #Portraits #Painting

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.
I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!

Rolf Harris famous quotes

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