R- THE DON Quotes

When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

Superman and Robinhood are still alive in Hollywood.

Showbiz is great if you're successful.

I take pride in being very unique in what I do. Nobody else can do what I do and I don't mean to say that egotistically, it's just something in my personality.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

Deliver more than you promise.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.

You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.

I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.

In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.

It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team

Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

You get NOWT for being second.

To be a team, you must be a family.

There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.

A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.

If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.