C. J. Dennis Quotes

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

Now I don't have anything against Mexican people, but for God's sakes, sign the gust book on the way in.

I'm extremely moved by the loving, caring relationship the President always seems to have with his imaginary son.

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians.

Hey, Cunningham - Andy Warhol called. You're at 14:55 and we're tickin' big-time here, Chachi.

If you could use the Internet somehow to see how a Fiji sailor is doing, rather than having to read a text version of it somewhere a day later, that would be great.

Listen, the weather is just like Hillary's explanation for her war vote: we just don't know, do we?

Let me use their own terminology against them. They aborted a child in the 200th trimester.

Detroit's so bad this year they might lose their bye week.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

Some people like M&Ms plain, and some people like them with nuts.

After September 11th, freedom of speech in America has become a topic that's touchier than a Vatican summer camp.

I don't know about you, but in my neighborhood, they just opened a Starbucks... IN A STARBUCKS!!!

I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something.

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

I've changed after 9/11. My friends are still my friends.Bill Maher is my friend. I don't agree with a lot of what he says. And there are times I think, "Oh, my God. How could he say that."

It's nice to be included in the broadcast food chain.

I think [Ann Coulter] understands that, she's Pavlov's dog. She gets the corn kernel if she hits that drum once in a while.

When your mother starts using the word "party" as a verb about her kid, that's absolutely crazy.

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

The educated horse is a thinking horse, and it seems that he understands every now and then something happens that he must chalk up as a mistake and be done with it.

Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.

The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

A man like me should carry his burdens alone. If he doesn't people get hurt

Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion.

Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

There's always a faster gun.

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Everything we do has consequences.

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.