C. J. Dennis Quotes

And I've always been paranoid. I can remember as a baby my mother would spin the mobile above my head and thinking..."yeah, that's coming down."

To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

I don't want to be bulky and stiff.

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

I don't trust what this life has given me.

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.

I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

I always thought, from day one, that winning races was just doing your job.

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!

When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.

There are moments that I've had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough.

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.