"To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral."

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Spike Milligan

#Funeral Quotes #Singing Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.”
“I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their most characteristic pose, which in a way involves all their character and social standing - what the world has done to them and their retaliation.”
“I don't know why but when i look in your eyes, I feel something that seems so right.”
“All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.”
“Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the Greek Empire, driving out Greek scholars, who carried the knowledge of Greek language and literature to the western world; and in 1454 the first document known to us appeared from the printing press at Mainz.”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 41-42, 1949.
“It's nice having a bear about the house.”
“You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.”
“Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.”

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