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Attila the Stockbroker
11 quotes
“It first was a rumour dismissed as a lie but then came the evidence none could deny: a double page spread in the Sunday Express — The Russians are running the DHSS!”
Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Russians in the DHSS", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
“Hitching up the M11 coming back from a Dexys gig got picked up 'bout half eleven by this bloke in a funny wig”
Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Contributory Negligence", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
“He wanted me to beat him up! It was an open invitation! Late at night he picked me up — an act of open provocation!”
Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Contributory Negligence", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
“A five pence fine is right and proper — and to sum up my defence it was his fault he came a cropper: CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE!”
Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Contributory Negligence", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
“I don't want a fortnight on the Costa del Sol Don't wanna go to Bognor — it's a plague-ridden hole and it don't fit in with my ideology... Down the Adriatic to the Vlora bay Twenty pints of Fosters and I'm away 'Cos now I know just where I wanna be: Albania — that's the place for me!”
Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holiday in Albania", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
“No agony, no ecstacy, no pleasure and no pain — so exquisitely uninteresting you drive your wife insane The TV is your oracle, the newspapers your guide and your shiny little vehicle is your passion and your pride You've done the same things every day for nigh on forty years and in your ludicrous routines you hide your worthless fears On the blandest boat in Boredom you are captain of the crew and every time I eat vegetables it makes me think of you.”
Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Every Time I Eat Vegetables...", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
“My wardrobe is like a garden oh, I don't know how I've got the gall! my wardrobe is just like a wardrobe — it's not like a garden at all!”
Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Wardrobe", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
“So thin, and yet... so thick.”
Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Supermodel" (1999-11-29), from attilathestockbroker.com. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
“I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.”
Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Iraqui Weapons Inspectors' Report" (2002-12-09), from attilathestockbroker.com. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!”
Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bible according to Rupert Murdoch", from attilathestockbroker.com. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
“And the Lord Rupert looked at his work, and even he saw that it was a load of crap, but this was the enterprise culture and it sold millions so it was good. And on the same basis he decided to take over the television too, and the earth itself wept, and little robins vomited, and cuddly furry animals threw themselves under trains, and the whole thing was filmed by Sky Channel for a horror nature programme, and the most awful thing of all was that this was just the beginning.”
Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bible according to Rupert Murdoch", from attilathestockbroker.com. Retrieved 2007-03-26.