Blokes Quotes - Page 2

• Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly

  Peter Cosgrove

  Dad, Military, Men

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• Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne chance.

  Gary Lineker

  Congratulations, Careers, Chance

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• Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.

  Richard Hammond

  Believe, Beer, Pie

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• They put up this bloke's picture on Crimewatch UK with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'.

  Jasper Carrott

  Men, Phones, Numbers

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• Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

  Charlie Brooker

  Real, Doors, Shoes

  "The very fabric of society is breaking down around us. What the hell is there left to believe in?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2009.

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• Basically it's just a whole bunch of blokes standing around scratching themselves

  Kathy Lette

  Bunch, Standing, Whole

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• You never want an Australian with his back against the wall. You put any 12 blokes together and you'll get a job done. Whether it's getting a bogged four-wheel-drive off the beach or standing in front of a cricket wicket and making sure we're in a dominant position. It's the same dog, different leg action, so to speak.

  Matthew Hayden

  Funny, Wisdom, Dog

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• After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is

  Damon Hill

  Team, Giving, Next

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• I want to be loved. Oh, it's SO CORNY, isn't it?! But I just want to be loved by a bloke that loves ME! I want to feel special, you know. I almost feel guilty for feeling it.

  Rae Earl

  Special You, Feelings, Want

  Rae Earl (2016). “My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir”, p.9, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...

  J. K. Rowling

  Noses, Sides, Said

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• No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed cos he's awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch 'Blink'.

  Neil Gaiman

  Blue, Space, Doctors

  "If This is Sunday Than I Must be at Home" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. April 7, 2011.

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• The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Ordinary, Doe

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• A bloke's bowling at 150kph trying to rip the fingers off your arms or probably even worse. It gets your blood going and the adrenalin pumping. You are in a fight. And to me that's what Test cricket is all about.

  Justin Langer

  Rip, Fighting, Blood

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• You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be 'that bloke from 'Lock, Stock'.' You've got to embrace it.

  Nick Moran

  Locks, Want, Appreciated

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.

  Elvis Costello

  Death, Kissing, Giving

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• When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger

  Lee Ryan

  Clubs, London, Looking Good

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• I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.

  Brett Kenny

  Sports, Wisdom, Australia

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• Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes!

  Louise Rennison

  Moon, Light, Sake

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• I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

  Nigel Lawson

  Thinking, Weather, Ordinary

  "They cheat, I tell you". Interview with Julian Glover, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I tend to bail out of the joke, I lose commitment in it, I'll give you an example: Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.

  Bill Bailey

  Stupid, Commitment, Numbers

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• Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Three

  "Is It Bill Bailey? (Episode 1)". Stand up / sketch comedy series by Bill Bailey, February 20, 1998.

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• I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it?

  Curtis Stone

  Men, Guy, Cooking

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• One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Albert guy was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.

  Jose Mourinho

  Powerful, Stupid, One Day

  "Manchester United's José Mourinho: no longer the bright young iconoclast" by Jonathan Wilson, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2016.

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• Gaddafi's a great bloke. The media only show the bad things. I used to go round his house. His son's a super simple guy. All the Gaddafis are very down to earth.

  Luis de Agustini

  Football, Son, Simple

  "Said & Done" by David Hills, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.

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• Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand.

  Craig Coleman

  Rugby League, Land, Pockets

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