R- THE DON Quotes

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.

Opportunity is the greatest charity.

Your mind was made to know and love God.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

I don't believe that heaven waits for only those who congregate.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

Lots of leaders want to be popular. I never cared about that. I want to be respected.

From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.

Success is the peace of mind that comes when you know you have given everything you have to give to the opportunities that life has presented you.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.

I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter but my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter but I think it's about forgiveness... forgiveness, even if you don't love me anymore.

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

I cant believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.

In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.