A Quote by Lord Buckley

If you get to it, and you cannot do it, then there 
 you jolly well are, aren't you? — © Lord Buckley
If you get to it, and you cannot do it, then there you jolly well are, aren't you?

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If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.
Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!
I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!
Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.
People will say you cannot get a job in a down economy. People will say you cannot get a job that you love that will pay you well. People will say you can’t do good and do well. They’re wrong, that’s idiotic advice. People will tell you that you cannot change the world. They’re wrong too.
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
Sometimes you get nervous because you cannot make shots and then you rush your shot and then you take bad shots and then you get even more nervous.
When you become so determined that you want to feel good - you have become as your Inner Being is, in such a pure place of Positive Energy - then that which is 'negative energy' simply can't mix with you. It defies Law. If you are very strong and clear about your positive wanting, and feeling it, then 'bad' things simply cannot get in. Colds can't get in, car accidents can't get in, anything that you are not wanting cannot be your personal experience.
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.
It was nice working with a jolly team in 'Gangaa.' I was well-acquainted with the production team, which was same on 'Balika Vadhu.'
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
I thought you'd be arguing [in the law school], and then I realized you have to read all these cases, and it's mostly writing, and then I just thought, "Well, I might as well stay and get the degree."
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