Thomas Dolby Quotes

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

I'm never gonna get it, but I always wanted a tattoo that says: 'This is my tattoo.'

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

My films are comical films. They are made to laugh at. They are comical - and scientifically correct.

I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

From my own kind I only learn How foolish comfort is

My whole life is classical now. Except my wife. I don't have a classical wife. I have a classy wife, but I don't have a classical wife.

Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.

Sean is so funny. One time he went to Ireland for two weeks with his mother, and Ireland is so beautiful, and he got back; we were like, 'How was it?' and he was like, 'Ugh I was so bored.'

I never thrived in high school.

I didn't collect my GCSEs. I didn't even do most of them.

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things.

In the movies, I never lost a fight. In baseball, I hardly ever won one.

I have a house full of dead succulents but I was very attentive.

One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like, 'Hey, there's an asshole.'

My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?

I'm really high... I mean the altitude of course.

He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It had done nothing he had considered particularly entertaining, apart from emit interesting noises, and eventually, once the noises had stopped and the monkeys were no longer doing anything at all—except possibly on an organic level—had needed to be disposed of in the dead of night.

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.