Dave Allen Quotations

How could I have not known about Ume? An Austin trio fronted by a whirling dervish of singer guitarist who in the standard PR band head shot looks like she wouldn't hurt a fly; yet give her a guitar, a Marshall stack and a mic and stand back, way back. She shreds. File under - Do Not Overlook and Go Tell Your Friends

It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand

I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things.

Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

Goodnight, thank you, and may your god go with you.

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

We have felt from the beginning that rather than wait until people are mad at us and try to fix it, we would try to be on good terms from the start.