Olivia Robertson quotes

everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.
-- Olivia Robertson

#Humor #Fancy #Humour

The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we know fifteen different answers to every question. All of them right.
-- Olivia Robertson

#Fifteen #Different #Answers

I find churches limit me.
-- Olivia Robertson

#Church #Limits

Like all silent men, I am an incessant talker. I talk so much in an endless monologue in my own mind, explaining meself to meself, explaining things (in me own mind) to your aunt, answering back customers (in me own mind) and talking to beautiful women about my soul (in me own mind) and addressing huge cheering crowds about my ideas on how the country should be run (in my imagination) that when it comes to loosening me mortal tongue in reel life, sure there's not an ounce of talk left in me.
-- Olivia Robertson

#Beautiful #Running #Country

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.

I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.

I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to.

Each man has his fancy.

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

Only six need be attempted.

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.