“Steam engines don't answer back. You can belt them with a hammer and they say nowt.”
Fred Dibnah (1938–2004) English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering
Unsourced
Imitating suicide bombers from Leeds.
No Agenda (2007)
“Steam engines don't answer back. You can belt them with a hammer and they say nowt.”
Fred Dibnah (1938–2004) English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering
Unsourced
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) British writer
"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" (1958), from New and Collected Stories (1958; repr. London: Robson, 2003), p. 8.
“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
As cited in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007), Ed. Goodwin, Black Dog Publishing, p. 49, ISBN 1579127215
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variant: I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Stanley Holloway (1890–1982) English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist
Sam, Sam, Pick Oop Tha' Musket
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
3 Minute Wonder, Episode 4
On Nature
Source: The Ricky Gervais Show - First, Second and Third Seasons
“The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.”
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
“Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial”
George Orwell book Animal Farm
Source: Animal Farm
“Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.”
Martin Amis book Einstein's Monsters
"Introduction: Thinkability"
Einstein's Monsters (1987)
“An idea is always abhorred when taken out of its historical context”
Ali Al-Wardi (1913–1995) Iraqi sociologist
“You know
Taken out of context I must
Seem so strange.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Firedoor
Song lyrics
Source: Ani DiFranco: Verses