D. O. Flynn Quotes

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness

I couldn't believe, I felt as if, like I said, I was going to drap deed y'knaw't a mean?

I'd like to thank ma da (dad)... my mum for doin' aw ma washin'

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

That'd be good. That'd be a right good laugh, man. Ye cannae catch me shuttin' up, man

I'm not a big drinker. I don't really drink at all. But my dad and his pals will want to have a good swally because their nerves will be in some state, man!

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead...'

I want faith; but I am faithless

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

Safer to be feared than loved.

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

I had no sympathy for drama queens.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.

Republicans go to Sam’s Club, Democrats go to Costco.

I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?

I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

I would have done anything to feel real again.

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.

He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual.

Coffee goes great with sudden death.

Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.

I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

Like the man says, there's no problems, only solutions.

A digital frontier to reshape the human condition.

On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.

Calmly in the precious present, be a light for love and wisdom in the window on your world.

I'm not afraid to look like a fool - and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.

I'm the kind of woman who, when she walks into a party, all the other women leave the room.