Dean Koontz Quotes

Did you get the leash on him yet, Einstein?

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• The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Want
  • Sad
  • Leader

• Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Strong Woman

• 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

• Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • May
  • Support
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• I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Sound
  • Security

• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Life
  • Years
  • Insurance

• I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Picture

• It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Parents
  • Voice
  • Gift

• Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • History
  • Bear

• Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

  

  Patrick Campbell
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Courage

• I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350.org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • High
  • Wind

• Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Reality
  • Wonder

• Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • God
  • Money
  • May

• Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create Him.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • God

• And rather than make the book unwieldy I have eschewed notes-reluctantly when some obscure passage or allusion seemed to ask for a timely word; with more equanimity when the temptation was to criticize or 'appreciate.' For the function of the anthologist includes criticizing in silence.

  

  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Temptation

• To me, I love real estate because you can feel it.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Real

• I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Up
  • Home
  • Food

• Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.

  

  Joy Bryant
  • Help
  • Resources
  • Troubles

• I loved shoes. I had my little ballerina flats, and my mom never wore heels. But when I was about three or four, she got a job where she had to wear the tiniest heels. I was obsessed.

  

  Chloe Gosselin
  • She
  • Job
  • Mom

• I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Write

• Did you get the leash on him yet, Einstein?

  

  Dean Koontz