Dean Koontz Quotes

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

Dean Koontz

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• When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • College

• I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Teenager

• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Learning

• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • World
  • Business
  • Book

• In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hate
  • Kind
  • Violence

• The years teach much which the days never know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Years

• I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Experience
  • American
  • Design

• Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Experience
  • House
  • Breakfast

• If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pretty

• Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Money
  • Vacation

• The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Today

• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Blind

• A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Woman

• I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Experience
  • Because
  • Focused

• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Light

• That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

  

  Alexis Denisof
  • Important
  • Experience

• They wanted me for short relief, ... I joined them in St. Louis and they promptly lost seven in a row. I never pitched because they were never ahead.

  

  Bob Shaw
  • Lost
  • Relief
  • Row

• I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • Long
  • Silence

• A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

  

  Branch Rickey
  • Great
  • Player

• In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Experience
  • Violence