Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duke Ellington

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

Duke Ellington

Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

Dougray Scott

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Dr. Dre

Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.

Dr. Dre

I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?

Dr. Dre

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

Dr. Seuss

I speak for the trees!

Dr. Seuss

I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.

Dr. Seuss

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

Dr. Seuss

The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: stink. Stank. Stunk.

Dr. Seuss

Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.

Dr. Seuss

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

Dorothy Dunnett

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

Dorothy Dunnett

For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And from the turn of his throat, the warmth of his hair, the strong, slender sinews of his hands, something further; which had. Though she combed the earth and searched through the smoke of the galaxies there was no being she wanted but this, who was not and should not be for Philippa Somerville.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they want to do with themselves, hesitate because they have a great deal more to deal with. A nature rich in fine and complex possibilities takes more time to dispose of itself, but when it does, the world's beauty is the gainer.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

Dorothy Day

Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

Dorothy Day

If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

Dorothy Day

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Very dangerous things, theories.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

Dorothy L. Sayers

. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

Donovan McNabb

But if you're coming off ACL surgery, you don't need to be having a press conference at OTAs. Every week? Really? It becomes a circus, a sideshow. It takes away from the focus of what those sessions are supposed to be about: the team.

Doris Humphrey

The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.

Dontrelle Willis

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

Dontrelle Willis

Keep winning and get to the postseason, I won 20 games and they just dumped one beer on my head. It feels good because I'm helping my team win.

Doris Day

I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.

Doris Day

Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

Donny Osmond

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.