J. D. Daniels Quotes

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

This is what it's like to get old: you still feel 19, except your knees hurt...

You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been

Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them.

Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

What this world needs is a few more Rednecks.

I ain't askin' nobody for nuttin' if I cain't get it on my own.

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

Success is having consistent work habits.

What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.

So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ... if I can't take him with me, I don't want to go.

Take every failure as an experience, cause to be successful you need experience.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?

I couldn't care less about politically correct.

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

More people are bribed by their own money than anybody else's.

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

I am still working on patter and presentation.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing beats a pepperoni pizza and chocolate Haagen Daas.

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.