Denis Quotes

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

The movie's not over till everybody's dead.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped.

We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.

I love to smoke. I love to eat red meat. I'll only eat red meat that comes from cows who smoke, ok!? Special cows they grow in Virginia with voice boxes in their necks. "Moo"

The only difference between kids and jungle animals is pants. Kids wear them. Jungle animals don't.

I take music pretty seriously. You see that scar on my wrist? You see that? You know where that's from? I heard the Bee Gees were getting back together again. I couldn't take it, OK!

Everybody's vying for people's attention in terms of eyeballs, earholes, and dollars.

I'm pretty much a chocolate guy. I'm up for any type of chocolate. Any chocolate.

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with "No Cure For Cancer."

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

Elvis and I call up Cadillac dealerships all night long, suckin' down Ny Quil stingers and cheese. He says, what the hell's Lisa Marie thinking with that Michael Jackson crap?

Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do.

Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh.

I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.

When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep

When I'm not paralytic, I like to play golf.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.

I think a good director is a good listener.

You cannot make promises because you never know what your next project will be.

Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.

Your attitude is a choice you make.

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.

Instead of just letting life happen, I'm going to make it happen for me.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Life is but a series of misunderstandings.

The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press.

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.