Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I'm a very neat person.

Dick Van Dyke

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• A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Opinion

• I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Want
  • Look

• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Grace

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Friends
  • Career

• We've been probably to some degree too successful.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Successful
  • Degree
  • Some

• I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Retirement

• In some ways, Australian fans are more dedicated and more enthusiastic than some of our most loyal fans in the U.S.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Fans
  • More
  • Enthusiastic

• The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Children
  • Trouble

• My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Family
  • She
  • Woman

• It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'

  

  Idris Elba
  • God
  • Long
  • Business

• I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Day
  • Problem

• A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Time
  • World
  • Heart

• I'm a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Feel
  • Inspired

• My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I'm more mature. I respect more the game as I should.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Game
  • Respect
  • Mature

• I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Actor

• America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Think
  • Books

• You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

  

  Dave Van Ronk
  • Work
  • Success
  • Failure

• I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Passion
  • Novel

• The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Die
  • Dark
  • Doubt

• I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • See
  • I Can
  • Blind

• I'm really good with sweats, not really good with heels, and not really good with accessorizing yet.

  

  Annie Ilonzeh
  • Good

• I'm a very neat person.

  

  Dick Van Dyke