Prawns Quotes

• They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.

  Roy Keane

  Sandwiches, Drink, Realising

  2000 On spectators in the corporate boxes at Manchester United games. In the Sunday Times, 31 Dec.

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• El sobrino se venga de ello conteniendo la respiración y aterrorizando a su parienta con la espantosa creencia de que ha decidido reventar. A pesar de los susurros y las sacudidas, se hincha y se decolora, y de nuevo se hincha y se decolora, hasta que la tía no puede soportarlo más, y lo conduce fuera, sin cuello visible, y con los ojos que van delante de él como los de un langostino.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Revenge, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.60

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• Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing. But these days, gossip-columnist training seems to be enough qualification. I suppose an ability to stand on your feet through interminable cocktail parties and swig interminable gins in between devouring masses of fried prawns may just possibly help you to understand and appreciate what a director is getting at, but for the life of me I can't see how.

  Peter Sellers

  Party, Should Have, Feet

  "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, p. 168, 1999.

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• Once upon a time humans faced each other and pulled thoughts from minds, advanced rapidly, revolutionised industry and evolved explosively. Then one day they stopped, and stared at a box. They grew fat and awkward in public, stopped expressing emotions and couldn't figure out how to reverse it: they reinvented themselves from Emperors back into prawns, because someone turned the TV on.

  Craig Stone

  Once Upon A Time, Awkward, Mind

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• Me balanceaba como la puerta de un retrete en un pesquero de gambas.

  David Feherty

  Golf, Doors, Toilets

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• Leonard Aster agradeció a Langostino Luchador y a la tribu de los moluscos su hospitalidad. "¿Quieres decir", dijo Fighting Prawn, "por no matarte?" "Sí", dijo Leonard. "Fue muy amable por vuestra parte". "¿Ustedes", dijo Leonard, "quiero decir, su tribu, les da la mano?" "No", dijo Fighting Prawn. "Nos besamos en los labios". "Oh", dijo Leonard, muy alarmado.

  Dave Barry

  Maldad, Peleas, Besos

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• Some people come to Old Trafford and can't spell football, let alone understand it. They have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich but don't realise what's happening on the pitch

  Roy Keane

  Football, People, Sandwiches

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• Preferiría acabar como abono bajo un girasol que al final se convierte en aceite de semillas de girasol para que, en lugar de mordisquearme en su cóctel de gambas, la chica guapa me unte en sus bristols mientras toma el sol en una playa del Caribe.

  Oliver Reed

  Girl, Beach, Oil

  Oliver Reed (1979). “Reed all about me: the autobiography of Oliver Reed”, W.H. Allen

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