“All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“Adults always ask kids how they are doing at school. The one subject kids absolutely hate talking about. You don't even want to talk about school when you are at school.”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“Unfortunately for Ben and Granny, it turns out that ancient poo does still pong.)”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“Just to check she’s not going out.” “Going”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“(Unfortunately for Ben and Granny, it turns out that ancient poo does still pong.) After”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“fact, if there was a fire in their house, and Mum could only save either a sparkly gold tap-shoe once worn by Flavio Flavioli (the shiny, tanned dancer and heartbreaker from Italy who appeared on every series of the hit TV show) or her only child, Ben thought she would probably go for the shoe.”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“the last few miles of the Atlantic Ocean back to England with all of the jewellery hidden in her knickers. Granny”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.”
― Francis Bacon, quote from Essays
“Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.”
― Allen Ginsberg, quote from Collected Poems 1947-1997
“You know how before you buy a house you hire someone to come check it out and write a homebuyer's report? Someone should do that for husbands. Before you get married, you should have a complete inspection to find out what's broken, if it's fixable, and how much it will cost to repair.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
― Aleister Crowley, quote from The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
“Having spent time around “sinners” and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.”
― David Kinnaman, quote from unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity... and Why It Matters
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