"My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle."

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Bob Monkhouse

#Father Quotes #Icicles Quotes #Drink Quotes

“We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.”
“The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.”
“Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.”
“I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my mother and sister, and the floor began to move under us. The hanging lamp swayed. It was very strange. My father came into the room. "It was an earthquake," he said. The center had evidently been at a considerable distance, for the movements felt slow and not shaky. In spite of a great deal of effort, an accurate epicenter was never found. This was my only experience with an earthquake until I became a seismologist 20 years later.”
“During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries.”

Source : "The Economic Background". Speech in the House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. March 17, 1987.
“I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.”
“There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.”
“I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.”

Source : "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey (Book I, Section I), 1969.

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