Your favourite quotes

[Black Abyss Babe]

"The sort of people who buy Crunchy Nut Cornflakes because they have an innate desire, but class-ridden reluctance, to eat Frosties."

- James May neatly sums up middle-class pretensions, in 1998.

 

[Brigantium]

Crunchy Nut Cornflakes pretend to be more healthy. There's absolutely no doubt that Frosties will turn your kids into a hyperactive cartoon tiger.

Nothing quite beats the attempt to make boring Weetabix appeal to kids by turning it into a gang of Cockney tough guys.

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

I wonder what James May would think if he knew I discovered Crunchy Nut Cornflakes by accident at a metal convention?

 

[Lightbrigade1]

What's Your Malfunction Numb Nuts ? - Full Metal Jacket -

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

"Like having a pink toilet seat hanging round my neck for the rest of my fucking life."

- Jeff Beck talking about how the fallout from a hit single (Hi Ho Silver Lining) was affecting his other career as a serious musician.

 

[Black Wizard]

I wonder what James May would think if he knew I discovered Crunchy Nut Cornflakes by accident at a metal convention?

Metal conventions exist?

 

[Brigantium]

And more to the point, they have Crunchy Nut Cornflakes at them?

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

Metal conventions exist?

And more to the point, they have Crunchy Nut Cornflakes at them?

Anything you can imagine exists somewhere in the universe .

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

"I'm sorry, was that Dracula or Bob Dylan?"

- Dara O'Briain, unsure which accent Mickey Flanagan was attempting.

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

"The most distressed surface this side of Jeremy Clarkson's face."

- James May. Not sure which was being more maligned - the potholed road he was describing, or his esteemed colleague ...

 

[MW564]

"It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits."

 

[Black Bart]

"One day, you'll wake up in a coma!" (Cordelia to Giles in Buffy The Vampire Slayer)

 

[phantomoftheicarus]

My new favourite quote, by a Mr Ozzy Osbourne...

Being sober on a bus, is like totally different than being drunk on a bus.

 

[John Silver]

The soil of a man’s heart is stonier Louis - a man grows what he can and tends it

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

The soil of a man’s heart is stonier Louis - a man grows what he can and tends it

Any excuse ...

 

[John Silver]

Any excuse ...

Exactly. Especially for the last part, right.

 

[John Silver]

She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

- Iggy Pop

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

"Actually I don't play in the studio, I have someone else who takes my place. Jim Page comes in."
- Ritchie Blackmore (presumably joking) in 1978.

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

"... a baritone growl, like someone waking up in a rubbish skip after a heavy night."
- Adrian Smith: not Tom Waits' biggest fan

 

[Sth2112]

Fuck my old boots - Nicko McBrain