My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically. Jon Richardson More Quotes by Jon Richardson More Quotes From Jon Richardson I don’t need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again. Jon Richardson complete-me littles needs Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do. Jon Richardson falling-in-love too-much fall I tend to wear a coat more for the fact that I worry if I'm going to get drunk, I'm going to get pickpocketed. And a coat goes over your pockets so it's harder for someone to get their hand in and steal your phone or wallet out of your pocket. It's an unnecessary level of thinking that may lessen the enjoyment you have out of life. Jon Richardson phones hands thinking I don't mean to hate people, I just get forced into it. Jon Richardson hate mean people I have a lot of internalised tantrums. I secretly hope the worst and then I start planning my little speech for the beginning of it. Showers are the worst - all the time in the shower I'm planning the next time I'm going to lose it at someone, and then I never actually do. You're almost let down when people are nice. Jon Richardson tantrums nice people There is simply too much to be done for us all to go round 'enjoying ourselves.' When the world is perfect, then we can all sit down and eat jelly beans, but for now the fact that things are going well for you just means that you are in a position to alleviate someone else's suffering for a while. Jon Richardson suffering perfect mean The last time I went back to a girl's house for an impromptu house party I spent most of the night straightening out rugs, putting down coasters and alphabetising DVDs while all around me people got off with whoever was closest and gradually headed off to various rooms to make more mess, no doubt. Jon Richardson party girl night I am in no doubt that if you use the term 'luv' in a letter or text message then you are incapable of truly understanding the emotion. Artists have not pored over heartache and unrequited sentimentality for years so that our generation could decide that four letters is simply one too many to express how we feel. Jon Richardson our-generation artist years I know very well that I have no reason to feel aggrieved - I am fully aware of how lucky I am, but knowing it and still being down makes me hate myself all the more. Jon Richardson lucky hate knowing I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection. Jon Richardson paying-taxes sight giving If you love something, Let it go, If it comes back it's yours, That's how you know kno-o-ow Nonsense, Christina Aguilera! I say, 'If you love it, file it away under "Things I love". If it's required at a later date, you'll know exactly where it i-i-i-is. Jon Richardson nonsense let-it-go things-i-love It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect. Jon Richardson care perfect grieving Anyone who tells you that it is better to have loved and lost that to never loved at all has never done both. Jon Richardson loved-and-lost done lost I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society. Jon Richardson levels believe people My weirdness aside, if I am to find any friends, particularly a girlfriend, she will almost certainly have to be a human. My previous track record tends to suggest that of all species that exist on the planet, it has so far been exclusively humans to whom I find myself sexually attracted. This is a good thing legally if nothing else. Jon Richardson records track girlfriend I don't really talk to people. Jon Richardson people I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts. Jon Richardson my-thoughts obscure thinking I think anyone can bake, but I don't think I can bake well. I sort of feel like baking is just, like, chocolate and butter and sugar, and that is always nice, so I think anyone can bake, you can put those things together, and it will come out all right. The next level of that, I definitely can't do. Jon Richardson feel you chocolate together It would be nice to be a piece of toast. Everyone likes a piece of toast, don't they? No one is ever sad when you offer them a piece of toast, and if I could be that to someone, that would be nice. Jon Richardson someone you sad nice The only big life challenge I think I'm worried about is a mid-life crisis because I've done so little. I think if people who've lived normal lives have mid-life crises and buy motorbikes, what is a man who's done nothing? Jon Richardson challenge man life people
