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I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.


Billy Connolly

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CYRIL CONNOLLY A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
CYRIL CONNOLLY No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit th...
JAMES CONNOLLY There are people who didn't like 'The Departed,' you know?
KEVIN CONNOLLY As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of l...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
CYRIL CONNOLLY A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without findi...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not...
CYRIL CONNOLLY No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the be...
CYRIL CONNOLLY We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
CYRIL CONNOLLY What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
CYRIL CONNOLLY Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk.
CYRIL CONNOLLY I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I starte...
KEVIN CONNOLLY Papa has not misled any client, manipulated any record, or covered up anything.
MICHAEL CONNOLLY 'Entourage' is almost required watching in L.A., and everyone seems to have story suggestion...
KEVIN CONNOLLY I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.
KEVIN CONNOLLY What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a...
JOHN CONNOLLY Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
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