"What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?"

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Source : Frank Muir, Denis Norden (1984). “The utterly ultimate 'My word!' collection”, Methuen Pub Ltd

Denis Norden

#Cheese Quotes #Harps Quotes #Pretension Quotes

“Game in, game out, year in, year out, just a kid cruising the ice looking to cause trouble - a wicked wristshot for a goal, a crushing bodycheck, a fight - opponents' bodies littered on the ice, fans out of their seats, the place in an uproar, and Wendel, no expression on his face, looking around wondering what the commotion was about.”
“I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.”

Source : Wally George (1999). “Wally George: The Father of Combat TV”, Seven Locks Press
“He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full of pretty people who acted like total freaks. I blame the local water supply. Which was why I drank bottled water.”
“To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.”
“It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.”
“I am not the first straight dancer or the last.”
“And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.”
“Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.”

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