C. J. Dennis Quotes

That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

The biggest battle in life is with yourself

The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

The truth [always] lies in things that have no words.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not

Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.

The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.

Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself.

If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

That punt was higher than Marion Berry on a fact-finding tour of Cartagena.

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche.

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.

I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

When the hell is Warren Moon going to retire? I mean, this guy is older than the cuneiform in Nebuchadnezzar's tomb.

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed?

In so many ways I'm just thankful for common sense. Common sense keeps you out of trouble.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.