‎What's the weather like? ... It's fierce mild!

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.

I'm quite a compulsive person-I only worked this out recently - I'm compulsive, but I'm also very indecisive. I don't know what I want, but I know that I want it now.

Oh how I hate you. I hate you so much it gives me energy. I have to get up early in the morning just to hate you, because there's not enough time in the day! Please GO AWAY!

I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

There rolls the deep where grew the treeO earth, what changes hast thou seen!There where the long street roars hath been.The stillness of the central sea.

...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and be severed

We aren't comfortable. We are not satisfied. We have to stay even-keeled.

But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.

Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.