C. J. Dennis Quotes

The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade.

Everyone sees different things.

I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

... scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'

What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?

The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.

In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.

Generally there is Stigler's law of eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.

The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion.

I am proof that Einstein's "e equals m c squared" is wrong. My mass has increased, but my energy has dropped.

I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer.

The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell down and saw God.

Ouch! And Marino goes down quicker than his Boonesfarm-infused sister in the back of my '68 Cutlass on our first date after watching 'Love Story' at the drive-in.

I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person.

I haven't seen anyone rely on the ground game this much since the battle of Verdun.

The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.

Somebody call Janet Reno - I think I just saw Donato dragging Doug Flutie into a locker room closet!

The quarterback's spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop.

Big deal, so he scored. The last time I saw someone dance like that I had to pay her $20 and have my pants dry cleaned the next day.

I'd rather be funny than wise.

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

That secondary provides worse coverage than a Guatemalan HMO.

I preume there are far too many abortions performed in this country. And I also believe that at the end of the day, as much as I might disapprove, none of them are really any of my business.

Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure of an airplane.

The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.

The claim that somehow raw foods give you better energy, are more healthful, improve your immune system and all of that is simply not substantiated. And moreover, it's not biologically plausible.

Check out the helmet hair on Randy Moss, babe! He looks like some freakish anti-Mr. T after a long evening sleeping through 'Aida.'

Wouldn't it be great if all of Osama bin Laden's money was tied up in Enron stock?

So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim.

Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons.

I don't need to be born again. I got it right the first time.

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

I've seen better coverage at an Alan Keyes press conference.

That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts?

Warner had more hands in his face than an OB-GYN delivering Vishnu's triplets!

Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?