Tim Quotes

You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.

For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had.

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.

Its intuition that works. Just intuition.

People started staring at me at the supermarket and restaurants and whatnot. And I knew that I looked just like Bill Clinton.

You know, folks, I'm going to make America great again. Honestly, I'm going to make America great again.

I am going to make America great again, guaranteed. That I can tell you.

If you have a juggernaut, you can make change. I'm all for that. If we could force people to always be connected when you play the game, and then have that be acceptable, awesome.

There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it'll change.

The end of the world begins in the sea we love.

The blank page doesn't bother me. It's the voice in my head (not always my own) that gives me the yips. It's worse when I'm not making stuff up.

The notion that love is abroad in the world has shaped my life.

Whatever you believe, you need faith to get through the day.

In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.

Optimism is necessary even if you don't instinctively feel it.

Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.

I went to school for 12 years, and uni for four, but I learnt more about human existence in the 30 hours it took my first child to be born than I did in all those years of study.

Doing nothing is making certain you lose. Which is just gutless.

Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.

What I'm saying so badly is we're bred now to believe we're in control and should be in control.

People can make symbolic gestures but doesn't mean their life changes. One philanthropic moment doesn't make a life of renewal; of change.

Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.

A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don't make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.

I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

We live in specific places. We are marked by a place.

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

People are fools, not monsters

We should have at least one new idea in the job training part of the platform. Otherwise, why don't we just take the 1964 platform and adopt it?

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular “hook” upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

But to value every company as if they are the next Google, rather than valuing them all as if one of them might be, is pretty much the definition of a bubble.

I'm glad to be able to announce that the UK now has it's very own mindless twit. || Either that or he's a damn good satirist.

We trust people we can count on. We count on people who do what they say they will do when they say they will do it.

We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.

The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.

Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.

When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart.

Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads.

There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't cure it.

I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself.

If you really care about content, you should pay for it.