18 Terry Jones Quotes

Terry Jones quotes

1. A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon.

2. It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.

3. Saying 'We will destroy terrorism' is about as meaningful as saying: 'We shall annihilate mockery.'

4. What is meant by: 'We mustn't give in to the terrorists'? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.

5. Ludicrous concepts:like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?

6. Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? Why should I care about any injustice done to them? I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's, Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.

1. We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.

2. We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.

3. I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.

4. Pinterest may have more travel intent data than any other site, so many people are pinning where they want to be.

5. We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

6. I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.

7. No matter how much I struggle through life, I have my head up and positive attitude.

8. I'm a good cook; one of my specialities is reindeer and potato pie.

9. I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines.

10. You know, I've never thought of myself as a comedian.

11. I don't think you need religion.

12. The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.