C. J. Dennis Quotes

People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism.

Stop sketching and start building.

The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. 90 percent of Americans agree. So, why no labeling?

What I saw in that country, I saw in that country and I saw people respect him and his family and that's what I mean about that.

I take issue with many people's description of people being illegal Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out.

Secularism produces a bored soul

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican'

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.

Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination '

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

He lasted about as long as the dessert tray at Rosie O'Donnell's house.

The cars that our children and grandchildren will be driving in the future will be greener as a result of high-tech lessons learned.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith

I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

Their offense is shakier than Katherine Hepburn after an all-night espresso bender at Starbucks.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.

I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast.

Just because you cannot fight every evil does not mean you should fight no evils.

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

I don't trust what this life has given me.

To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.