Best 16 quotes of Terry Jones on MyQuotes

I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.

It's a great time to book vacation travel for the winter, .. After the first of the year, airplanes are empty, resorts are empty, and they are very excited to get early bookings.

It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.

Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?

Pinterest may have more travel intent data than any other site, so many people are pinning where they want to be.

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.

Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty.

Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats.

The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.

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.

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.

Wild Thing made their hearts sing. But he couldn't top everything.

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.

The university had a new Managing Director, whose greatest achievement had been to change his title from 'The Principal' to 'The Managing Director'.

Trevor wondered if anyone in the outside world could even guess at the horror of working in the Planning Department