The Chain of Curiosity Quotes

“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.”
― Sandi Toksvig, The Chain of Curiosity

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― Sandi Toksvig, The Chain Of Curiosity

“I was once on a Tube train late at night when a young man sitting opposite pointed to his crotch and demanded, ‘What do you think of that?’ Thinking he might be showing me some interesting point in a book, I replied, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t see anything small without my specs.’ He fled at the next station and it was only when he got up that I realised he hadn’t been carrying a book at all.”
― Sandi Toksvig, The Chain Of Curiosity

“It was only a few years ago that Madame Tussaud’s announced that the company had found it necessary to use glue to ‘fix’ one of its most popular wax figures. ‘Every time we passed by,’ a curator explained, ‘Bill Clinton’s zipper was undone.”
― Sandi Toksvig, The Chain Of Curiosity

“I am reminded of the Sunday school class who were asked to draw pictures of their favourite Bible stories. The teacher admired many sheep and angels and then she came to a small boy who had drawn four people on an aeroplane. She asked him which story it was meant to represent. ‘This,’ he replied, ‘is the flight to Egypt.’ The teacher nodded and pointed to the four people. ‘So, who do we have here?’ ‘That’s Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus,’ replied the boy. ‘And the fourth person?’ asked the teacher. ‘Oh, that’s Pontius the Pilot.”
― Sandi Toksvig, The Chain Of Curiosity

“I loved it and the only things that came between me and a career in the stars was an inability to comprehend science and a fear of flying.”
― Sandi Toksvig, The Chain Of Curiosity

“Did you know that 75 per cent of people who read the sentence, ‘It is not possible to lick your own elbow’, will try? The other 25 per cent work for the parcel delivery service and would like you to try for them.”
― Sandi Toksvig, The Chain Of Curiosity

“scientists say that being fat can lead to dementia. I have decided, however, to throw caution to the winds and proceed with my all-cream-cake regime. It seems to me that the fatter I get, the fewer places I will go and so the less I will have to remember.”
― Sandi Toksvig, The Chain Of Curiosity