C. J. Dennis Quotes

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.

The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn't even know.

I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.

I'm just saying I'm being myself, and people understand that.

I'm going to come out and tell it like it is.

It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old.

The Bulls talked to just about every person who ever met me.

I'm very particular about who I sleep with.

This whole huddle thing really pisses me off.

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.

My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time.

When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.

The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game.

Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes.

The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

With me, everything's right on the table.

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.

He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.

I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.

I hate the fact that he's doing that, but the fact is that, you know what, that's a human being, though. He let his guard down one day to me, a friend.

Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.

I'm not left-wing, or right-wing. With only one wing I couldn't fly, and I just couldn't have that.

Why do you dwell on things that don't matter when there are so many things that do?

Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses.

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.

The key to successful business is self belief and application.

Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.

You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

America is not the center of the universe.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

False praise is worse than no praise.

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.