107 Quotes by Sandi Toksvig

I used to look at Jinks and marvel at her smooth complexion, but over the years I have come to realise that she has been spared wrinkles by virtue of never having succumbed to heavy thought.

Apparently advertisers don't like clever or insightful television programmes because such fare encourages people to discuss what they've seen during the ad breaks. This would explain much about the current state of broadcasting.

Sigh. Here's another fine woman that historians can't believe was real. Of course she was real. Not only is there a splendid Chinese poem called "The Ballad of Mulan", there is also n excellent cartoon by Disney.

You must stand up for everyone’s right to be who they are – otherwise you may find one day that it is you who is singled out, who is seen as different, and then there will be no one to defend you.” After.

The killing of time is the worst of murders. Daniel Defoe.

Apparently advertisers don’t like clever or insightful television programmes because such fare encourages people to discuss what they’ve seen during the ad breaks. This would explain much about the current state of broadcasting.

Margrie himself was made the first ‘Mr London’, a title which has the pleasing sense of them having had a swimsuit round in the competition. Margrie believed that he was a perfect example of a new evolutionary stage in human development, which he called Peckham Man. It never ceases to amaze me how many women struggle with self-belief while the vast majority of men have no trouble with it at all. He must have been insufferable.

You can go anywhere in the world, and people's faces light up when they put delicious food in their mouths.

I hope I don't have an ego.