C. J. Dennis Quotes

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

I already shred all my mail. What am I supposed to do now? Use pay phones? Smoke signals? Train pigeons? There's no such thing as privacy anymore.

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.

If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children.

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles

I have a Father's Day every day

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.

The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.

I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.

Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.

It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.

There is a fountain who is a King.

I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.

I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell.

What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use.

You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

I want to be anywhere in the world that I'm needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.

Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.