Dean Koontz Quotes

Never, never try to scope the market.

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• In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Sheep
  • Farm
  • Argentina

• Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Present

• Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • You
  • Care
  • Internet

• I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
  • Way
  • Relationships

• I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Work
  • Think
  • Sacrifice

• Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

  

  Harold Edward Holt
  • Unique
  • Trees
  • Gum

• When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Journey

• In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Community
  • End

• My work is not directly about the social or political.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • Work
  • Political
  • Social

• Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Good
  • Makeup

• When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Future
  • Eyes
  • Look

• It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Pretty
  • Better
  • Arts

• I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Like
  • Hollywood
  • Big

• The greatest of all prophets was still one of the prophets, and that large interest in the national and social life which had been inseparable from the religion of the prophets was part of his life too. The presumption is that Jesus shared the fundamental religious purpose of the prophets.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Jesus

• I only regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Country
  • Regret

• My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco. 'Libby-ah,' she'll say to me. 'Guess who I see yesterday, you guess.' And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead.

  

  Amy Tan
  • World
  • She
  • Eyes

• You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is.. God help him.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • God
  • Long
  • Bad

• Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Hope
  • Picture
  • Purple

• Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then the morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs.

  

  Kamala Markandaya
  • Together
  • Night
  • Morning

• Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Space

• For freedom's battle, once begun,Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,Though baffled oft, is ever won.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Freedom
  • Son

• Never, never try to scope the market.

  

  Dean Koontz