Rick Wakeman Quotes

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow

My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn't take long for the very thin layer of gold to disappear and the base metal underneath to show through.

If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster.

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.

All is not gold that glisters.

This car was a very pretty lie.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

All that glitters is sold as gold.

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.

Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.