Danny Elfman Quotes

It'll say, 'Danny Elfman, who wrote the theme to 'The Simpsons,' etcetera...That's what I'll be remembered for.

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• When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Future
  • Young
  • Group

• Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Book
  • America
  • Same

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • World
  • Best
  • Jesus

• I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Failure

• The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Society
  • Releasing
  • Freeing

• I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Work
  • Car
  • Fast

• I do not support a livable wage.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Support
  • Wage
  • Livable

• Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Trust

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Best
  • Safety

• I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Opinion
  • Fire
  • Wind

• It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Good
  • Past

• I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Ideas
  • Politics
  • Revolution

• I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Win

• I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Famous
  • Just Because

• If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • Want
  • Feel Good

• A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Dog
  • Door
  • Wrong

• Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.

  

  Ray Comfort
  • Believe
  • Justify
  • Foolishness

• My private life has nothing to do with my films.

  

  Fritz Lang
  • Life

• I think Measure C has been a success story. I don't like everything that's happened, but basically, it's been a great tool.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Think
  • Success
  • Story

• We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.

  

  Mary Ann Mobley
  • Different

• Too often we forget that when a soldier gives the ultimate sacrifice, there's a family back home who is suffering, ... This memorial should mean a lot not only for the veterans but also those they left behind. This is a great symbol of community pride.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Sacrifice
  • Soldier
  • Ultimate

• It'll say, 'Danny Elfman, who wrote the theme to 'The Simpsons,' etcetera...That's what I'll be remembered for.

  

  Danny Elfman