Dom DeLuise Quotes

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

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• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Done
  • Day

• George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Long
  • Idea
  • Israel

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Explore

• You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Better
  • Whiskey

• In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Even

• Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

  

  Pat Morita
  • America
  • You
  • Comedy

• Their crew for 'Arrow' is just one of the most wonderful crews that I've worked with. I know that actors say that all the time, and it sounds like trash coming out of my own mouth, but it's so true.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Time
  • True
  • Know

• I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Country
  • History
  • Gay

• New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Music
  • Friends
  • House

• There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • You
  • Water
  • Phone

• I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Answer
  • Obsessive

• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Age
  • Take
  • Tragic

• 'In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,' says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• I have expos'd myself to the enmity of all metaphysicians, logicians, mathematicians, and even theologians; and can I wonder at the insults I must suffer?

  

  Logic
  • Wonder

• It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • Experience
  • Childhood

• I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.

  

  Ricky Williams

• Hey, the band was rockin' Goin' around and around Well, reelin' and a rockin' What a crazy sound Well, they never stopped rockin' Till the moon went down

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Crazy
  • Band
  • Moon

• I don't play basketball for the money. I don't play it for the crowd. When I didn't have a friend, when I was lonely, I always knew I could grab that orange pill and go hoop. I could go and dunk on somebody. If things weren't going right, I could make a basket and feel better.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Money
  • Friend
  • Basketball

• When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Good
  • Book
  • Thoughts

• We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • Interests

• When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

  

  Dom DeLuise