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I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor. ↗

— Tim Vine

#i #know #metaphor #out #went

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. ↗

— Tim Vine

#into #narrative #one-liners #otherwise #overall

My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul. ↗

— Tim Vine

#bedroom #bit #david #elvis #got

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it. ↗

— Tim Vine

#both #dad #enjoying #his #i

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway. ↗

— Tim Vine

#ask #childhood #comics #conscious #conscious effort

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff. ↗

— Tim Vine

#am #because #busy #driven #garden

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke. ↗

— Tim Vine

#always #because #condense #confidence #getting

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations. ↗

— Alexandre Vinet

#aspirations #ceased #god #human #never

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#degree #differences #everything #kind #oneness

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#also #became #equilibrium #even #large