Dean Koontz Quotes

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

Dean Koontz

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• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Music
  • Business

• Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • End
  • Just Because

• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • World
  • Way
  • Respect

• I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Bed
  • Obsession
  • Ship

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Conflict

• In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Power
  • Friends

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • World
  • Free
  • Action

• I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Myself
  • Chance
  • Retirement

• People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Day
  • Evil

• I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Rock

• We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Real
  • Defeated

• If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Back
  • Go

• For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • Women
  • She

• When you get a question like, 'Did you like meeting Her Majesty?' 'No, I thought she was a slob.' I mean, what are you going to say... The mischief comes into me when I'm doing a Q&A, I'm 9 years old again. I don't get mad. I do get offended.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • She
  • Question
  • Mad

• She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion, - when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent.

  

  George Eliot
  • Time
  • She
  • Passion

• I've never really thought of myself as a singer.

  

  Charlie Fink

• Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Always
  • Jesus
  • Lies

• My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • She
  • Wife
  • Breakfast