Dennis Quaid Quotes

Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know?

Dennis Quaid

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Bad
  • Play
  • Mood

• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • People
  • Thought
  • Villain

• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Know
  • Famous

• I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • City
  • Fashion
  • Year

• Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Time
  • Chocolate
  • Ice Cream

• My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Love
  • Best

• Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!

  

  J. D. Souther
  • History
  • Opinion
  • Miracle

• If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Success

• Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • End
  • System
  • Compromise

• My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Jazz
  • Ballet
  • Trainer

• Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Women
  • Children
  • Family

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Want
  • Better
  • Acting

• I have a genuine philosophy. I do not want to make negative pictures about people, and so I do everything I can to help make them feel comfortable in front of the camera. That is what is going to control your picture, because you are alone if your subject is not with you. And that's the simple answer to getting a good picture.

  

  Douglas Kirkland
  • People
  • Good
  • Help

• A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.

  

  T. H. White
  • Time
  • God
  • Mind

• Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know that before this was over, she’d either end up in Dmitri’s bed . . . or one of them would bleed darkest red.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • She
  • Stop

• Tell me, why do you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else; get's me frustrated. Life's like this: You fall and you crawl and you break and you take what you get and you turn it into. Honestly, you promised me I'm never going to find you faking. No, no! No!

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Life
  • Why
  • Fall

• I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.

  

  Derek Walcott

• Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know?

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • America
  • Wall
  • Missing