The best Quotes by Hugh Laurie

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.

Motorbikes

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If the wonder's gone when the truth is known, there never was any wonder.

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Miracles

I'm sorry, but the fact that the sexual pleasure center of your cerebral cortex has been over-stimulated by spirochetes is a poor basis for a relationship.

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Sex Relationships

What would you prefer - a doctor who holds your hand while you die, or one who ignores you while you get better? I suppose it would particularly suck to have a doctor, who ignores you while you die.

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Doctors & Medicine

It's one of the great tragedies of life -- something always changes.

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Change

People like talking about people. Makes us feel superior. Makes us feel in control. And sometimes, for some people, knowing some things makes them care.

Gregory House in Dr. House - Season 1 Episode 13

Gossip & Rumors

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

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Religion Racism

I have always worried about things more than I should.

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Thinking

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.

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I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

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Birds

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'What the hell is going on?'
'Should we be scared?'
'This is a safe space, emotionally. Physically, we're obviously in terrible danger.'

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My first words, as I was being born I looked up at my mother and said, "that's the last time I'm going up one of those!"

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Funny Quotes

I called JK up and said, "Look, do you mind, I can't say 'Harry pocketed-ed it'. Would it be okay if I said 'Harry put it in his pocket'?" There was a big pause at the end of the line, then she said, "No" in her best witch's voice. I could hear her smile as she said it.

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Joanne K. Rowling Quotes about Harry Potter

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

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Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

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Books

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

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Lord Melchett: "Ah, Blackadder, talking to yourself, I see."
Blackadder: "Yes, it's the only way I can be sure of intelligent conversation."