Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Trumbull

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

Douglas MacArthur

My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

Douglas Rushkoff

Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

Douglas Rushkoff

We each create a story - a narritive, a picture, an allegory, a model - for what's going on in the universe. And then we fight - sometimes to the death - to make others believe in that model, or to be able to keep believing in it ourselves. In other words, we try to erase contradictory evidence to that model.

Doug Ferguson

A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect, but a full melding of spirit and will, believing that this is not only possible but is the entire point of life in this world.

Doug Larson

For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling.

Doug Liman

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

Dorothy Richardson

... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.

Donna Brazile

I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring.

Donna Karan

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

Donna Karan

I believe in the power of women. As nurturers, we have a unique ability to care and share and make the world a better place. Women Who Inspire are women who are making a difference.

Donald Cargill

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

Donald E. Westlake

The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe. God, of course, working with facts, faces no limitation.

Donald Barthelme

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

Donald Barthelme

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

Don DeLillo

History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected knowledge, took faith from the solid and availing stuff of our experience. Even if we believe that history is a workwheel powered by human blood -- read the speeches of Mussolini -- at least we've known the thing together. A single narrative sweep, not ten thousand wisps of disinformation. (82)

Don DeLillo

I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

Don DeLillo

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

Don DeLillo

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

Don DeLillo

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Donatella Versace

As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.

Donatella Versace

I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

Donatella Versace

I don't even know what my natural colour is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables.

Donatella Versace

We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.

Donatella Versace

It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.

Don Herold

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Don King

You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible.

Don King

I cant believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.

Don King

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.

Dylan Lauren

I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?

Dylan McDermott

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

Dylan Thomas

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Dylan Thomas

I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.