Terry Jones
Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry "Terry" Jonesis a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, historian and author. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth1 February 1942
CityColwyn Bay, Wales
thinking order voice
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.
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Wild Thing made their hearts sing. But he couldn't top everything.
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Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats.
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Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty...
war circles political
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.
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It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.
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I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.
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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.
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These included some disturbingly young people including a 13-year-old, and a scoutmaster who we then discovered had been abusing a child for four years,
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The Earth is slowing down. The Earth is spinning slower than it was when the international second was defined using atomic clocks, so we're losing time on those clocks.
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It is a conundrum for us more than for the advertisers because we have to find a way over time to get paid for this information. For a Web site that derives some revenues from ads, it's our problem, and we have to figure out the right model.