Patrick Raftery > Patrick's Quotes

“Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.”
― Jeremy Clarkson

“How hard can it be?”
― Jeremy Clarkson

“No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.”
― Jeremy Clarkson

“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King

“Wipe your mouth,
there's still a tiny bit of bullshit around your lips.”
― John Wagner

“I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.”
― Sir Alex Ferguson

“Our ancestors,” he went on after a while, “took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they’re buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!” He was angry, but he was often angry. He glowered at me, as if wondering whether I was strong enough to hold this land of Northumbria that our ancestors had won with sword and spear and blood and slaughter.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin

“The tale of someone's life begins before they are born.”
― Michael Wood, Shakespeare

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban