Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don King

She's (Christy Martin) voluptuous and intoxicating no smear lipstick. Here's a woman who pounds it out and her lipstick don't smear. Revlon should jump on that like white on rice, you know what I mean? Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden.

Dylan Lauren

I am a picky eater. By that I mean, I love to pick the raisins out of oatmeal raisin cookies, the chips out of chocolate chip cookies, the white side off of black and white cookies, and the vanilla center out of Oreos.

Doug Scott

In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.

Doug Ose

What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think So what? They should think again.

Doug Stanhope

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.

Doug Stanhope

If you get offended by words - by noises we make with our mouths - it means you were raised by bad parents.

Doug Stanhope

One UK paper described me as a "miserablist", a word I'd never heard before or since. I looked it up and it means someone who can only be happy when they are miserable. Perfect.

Douglas Adams

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

Douglas Adams

It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.

Douglas Adams

Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes. We are going to die." "Yes, but apart from that." "Apart from that?!" "It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?

Douglas Adams

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Douglas Adams

Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.

Doris Roberts

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

Dorothy Allison

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.

Dorothy Allison

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

Doris Lessing

I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing

Doris Lessing

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

Doris Lessing

Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.

Donna Tartt

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial

Donald Kennedy

Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results.

Don Williams

Certainly the soda companies, the junk food companies fought hard against this and today's agreement doesn't mean the battle is over, we still have to pass this bill.

Don Rittner

Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

Don Rickles

I've never been mean-spirited, in my opinion. I never did anything below the belt.

Don Rickles

I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.

Don Rickles

I take pride in being very unique in what I do. Nobody else can do what I do and I don't mean to say that egotistically, it's just something in my personality.

Don Rickles

If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.

Don Rickles

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

Don Rickles

People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.

Don Rickles

I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.

Dale Dauten

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Dale Earnhardt

You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

Dale Earnhardt

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

Dale Carnegie

Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.