Eddie Izzard Quotes on Language
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'Yes, I like my coffee hot and strong : Like I like my women: hot and ..strong : with a spoon in them.'
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This bloke who pinned a note on a door, saying 'Hang on a minute!' But in German, so: 'Ein minuten bitte! Ich habe eine kleinen problemo avec diese religiones.' [pause] He was from everywhere.
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'Two languages in one head? No one can live at that speed! Good Lord man, you're asking the impossible!' 'But, the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana!' 'Well : yes, but they're cheating! Everyone knows that marijuana is a drug enhancement that helps you on track and field to come last in a team of eight million : eight million other runners who are all dead.'
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Mais, la souris est en dessous la table, le chat est sur la chaise et le singe est : est : le singe est disparu!
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The European Union: five hundred million people, two hundred languages - no one's got a clue what they're saying to each other!
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'Danger' could be my middle name : but it's 'John'.
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Armageddon is Australian for 'Armageddon outta here!'
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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both : different. In spelling.
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She said, 'Spell 'ant'', and I wrote out the entire alphabet. She said, 'That doesn't spell 'ant'', and I said, 'It's in there somewhere! There's the 'A', there's the 'N', there's the 'T' - the rest are silent!'
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These are not implants, they're nice and squidgy, but they're not... they're ims, but they're not planted. They're just ims. Just your regular common or house garden ims.