Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dylan McDermott

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

Dylan McDermott

I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.

Dylan Thomas

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

Dylan Thomas

Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think.

Dylan Thomas

But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist.

Dylan Thomas

In the beginning was the secret brain. The brain was celled and soldered in the thought

Dylan Thomas

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Dylan Thomas

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

Dylan Moran

What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking 'That is just something that occurred to me there's something wrong with me', is in fact stuff that is universal.

Dylan Moran

The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

Dylan Moran

I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

Dylan Moran

I have to say, as much I am respectful of people's faith and the idea of it being necessary for them, but when it comes to the Catholic church as an organization I don't have one scintilla of compassion, understanding, anything. I just think they're the most heinous, corrupt, separatingly vile organization that's ever been on the planet.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never be more scared of the enemy than you think he is of you.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

Douglas Conant

Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.

Douglas Brinkley

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

Douglas Booth

I think we can't feed the amount of people that are on this planet the way we are doing it.

Douglas Booth

I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.

Douglas Booth

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

Douglas Booth

It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen.

Doug Stanhope

The ones that bother me the most are the media saying, He's like the next Bill Hicks. It's supposed to be complimentary, but then all these Bill Hicks fans show up thinking you're going to be like him, and then go, You're no Bill Hicks. And I'm like, I never wanted to try to be like him, I don't think I'm anything like him at all, and now you're mad at me for not being him because a journalist didn't have a better reference.

Doug Stanhope

The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.

Doug Stanhope

I'm not the one-take wonder that a lot people think I am.

Doug Stanhope

We have no healthcare and we have all the guns in the world, it makes you think twice before you start throwing punches in a bar.

Doug Stanhope

I think a lot of women look at prostitutes like they're scabs crossing an union picket line, where they go: You can't just go out and sell it for what it's worth, we're holding out for so much more!

Douglas Adams

If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.

Douglas Adams

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Douglas Adams

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Douglas Adams

I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.

Douglas Adams

Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.

Douglas Adams

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Douglas Adams

So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about.

Douglas Adams

He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.