Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Terry Jones

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.

I like fantasy.

I've never been good at improvising.

Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats.

I don't think you need religion.

I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!

I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.

It doesn't worry me what anyone says, except when publicity hurts others.

I'd like something that peels potatoes really quickly - that would be wonderful.

I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India.

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

Medieval learning was really advanced.

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

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

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

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

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.

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.

I like my stories once removed.

Fatherhood is wonderful.

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.

Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... 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.

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

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty.

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

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

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

It's a great time to book vacation travel for the winter, .. After the first of the year, airplanes are empty, resorts are empty, and they are very excited to get early bookings.

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?

Wild Thing made their hearts sing. But he couldn't top everything.

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

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.

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.

What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.