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  • The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

    Jobs   Thinking   People  
    Source: rocknycliveandrecorded.com
  • We were very - we were a working family, and my father had this very simple philosophy, simple working class approach. If you spoke to my father and said, "Mr Smith across the road, what do you think of Mr Smith?", he'd only - he'd only say a couple of words. He'd say, "He's a worker", and that meant this bloke got up in the morning, went out, worked, brought his money home, fed his wife and kids, housed them, got them to school, educated them, made sure they were safe and all that. It had so much connotations to it.

    Morning   Couple   Father  
  • I'm not saying Christopher Pyne and all them are my enemies, they're great blokes, shouted me a few beers a couple of times which I like, it's - we have got to sit down with the people like that. We have got to sit down with people like that and negotiate and work our way through. If we don't do that then we're just going to continue the sins of the past.

    Couple   Beer   Past  
  • Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?

    Boys   Groups   Joining  
    John Connolly (2011). “The Infernals: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, Simon and Schuster
  • 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?

    Men   Guy   Cooking  
  • Back in 2005, when I was Christopher Eccleston, we saw one of the largest increases on record, of CO2 in the atmosphere. Unless we keep the rise in global temperature to under 2 degrees, by the time I'm Daniel Radcliffe or wee Jimmy Crankie, I won't be able to save the planet. I won't be here to help you -- well I might, but I'll be that bloke who won Any Dream Will Do.

    Live Earth concert, 2007.
  • When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.

    Dark   Men   Fire  
    "Inferno". m.imdb.com. 2000.
  • You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

    Dad   People   Half  
  • 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'.

    Men   Phones   Numbers  
  • 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

    Dad   Military   Men  
  • When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.

    Light   Who I Am   Names  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

    Grief   Dna   Useless  
    Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.
  • It is easy being a manager when you are one of 25,000 sitting in the stand or if you are an ex-player who is now working for the media who will never manage anything better than an under-10 team, thinking he knows best - and you know what I'm talking about, and I will deal with that, trust me.

    Nice   Team   Player  
    "Neil Adams has precious little time to save Norwich City from relegation" by Jacob Steinberg, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2014.
  • 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.

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

    Moon   Light   Sake  
  • I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don’t have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I’ll be a bloke, they don’t have to make sense either.

    Louise Rennison (2013). “The Complete Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:”, p.57, HarperCollins UK
  • You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

    Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.85, Penguin
  • I never had any desire to be famous. I find people who do really sad. I genuinely feel sorry for them because there is nothing of substancein their lives. I am happy when I am writing or performing. Not when I sit there being "famous". I like recognition for my work, but not recognition for being "that bloke off the telly". It is genuinely humbling when a woman comes up to me, as someone did recently, to say she wanted to commit suicide after her husband died, and my show cheered her up and made her feel better. That's great.

    Suicide   Sorry   Husband  
  • When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force.

    Drug   Kingdoms   Firsts  
    "Russell Brand Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 31, 2010.
  • [ Rajiv Gandhi] was very reflective and rueful and regretful about the fact that his children's education...He wanted them to get educated outside of India, but he said to me the only place that he found where they would be safe was in Russia, and he didn't really want them to be educated there! So, I said, "Well, send them to Australia. I'll look after them." And my security bloke went absolutely bloody bananas, and I said, "We'll look after them." But, in the end, he didn't send them.

    Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org
  • Basically it's just a whole bunch of blokes standing around scratching themselves

    Blokes   Bunch   Standing  
  • If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate". Whereas if his American counterpart saw a bloke drive past in a Cadillac he'd say "One day I'm going to own one of those". To my way of thinking the first attitude is wrong. The latter is right.

  • Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.

    "Howard Wilkinson on Gary Speed: 'He leaves a huge, huge void'" by Howard Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.
  • After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for love nor money. It was a very tough time and I almost gave up. If I had been an Oxbridge bloke after 'Bhaji', my career would have been very different

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

  • I'm wary of the word glam because I think that became the all-inclusive term with for any bloke with lipstick on, which is fine, you know, and that's what it is when it comes down to the public level.

    "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.
  • The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.

    Drunk   Problem   Sober  
  • If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

    Fire   Tests   Bowlers  
  • So I was getting into my car and this bloke says to me, 'Can you give me a lift?' I said, 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it!'

    Funny   Humor   Oysters  
    "Comedy preview" by Wiliam Cook, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.
  • I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

    Jesus   Thinking   Blokes  
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