Quips& Quotes

“As a high-school dropout of the age of 16, I entered into the full-time workforce at KFC, with the aspiration to work in every single

KFC in this country so that I might see the world.” – Labour MP Kiritapu Allan in Parliament

“Of course I believe in luck. How else does one explain the success of those you don’t like?” – Jean Cocteau

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond and to know oneself.” – Benjamin Franklin

“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” – poet Najwa Zebian

“Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.” – Woody Allen, quoted in the Week

“In politics, nothing is ever so good or so bad as it first seems.” – British politician Willie Whitelaw, quoted in the Daily Telegraph

“The egg cup, the tea cup, the coffee cup and the Challenge Cup.” – old adage about bra sizes

“JPMs – that means ‘Jesus per minute’.” – RNZ on Christian rock

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” – W Someret Maugham.

“What idiot called it the Lord of the Rings and not Unexpected Item in the Baggins Area?” – writer Paraic O’Donnell on Twitter

“Silence is for the predator.” – US actor Viola Davis