“So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my h...” — Tommy Cooper Quote

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

Last night I slept like a log. I woke up in the fire place.

The town was so dull: one day the tide went out, and it never came back.

My wife said, 'Take me in your arms and whisper something soft and sweet.' I said, 'chocolate fudge.'

Electricity is a wonderful thing. Do you realise that if we didn't have electricity, we'd be watching television by candle light?

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.