Don Marquis Quotes

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

Don Marquis

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• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Brain
  • Study
  • Same

• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• The Katrina matter was terrible.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Matter
  • Terrible
  • Katrina

• Funny is funny.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Funny

• I think 'West Side Story' is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put onscreen - or stage, for that matter. I, frankly, like Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet' very much, too. I grew up with that... I loved it. I loved the score; I loved the acting.

  

  Kelly Asbury
  • Up

• But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Live
  • Trying

• When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Time

• I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.

  

  Frank Gehry

• Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

  

  Margaret Heffernan
  • People
  • Words

• Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.

  

  Cory Lidle
  • Thinking
  • Calm

• You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Up

• Is there a way that we would actually recognize the game of football with fewer tackles and fewer collisions? I'm not sure. But I think that's the direction we're going to have to go. Bigger fields? Fewer players on the field? I think we are ultimately going to have to change some of the major rules of the game.

  

  Ann McKee
  • Game
  • Football

• After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

  

  Benjamin David Goodman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Firing employees, that's unfortunately a part of doing business.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • Business

• What softer voice is hushed over the dead? Athwart what brow is that dark mantle thrown? What form leans sadly o'er the white death - bed, In mockery of monumental stone, The heavy heart heaving without a moan?

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Dark

• I've always thought that science fiction films set in our world have always rung false.

  

  Jim Henson
  • World
  • Science

• I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Free
  • Pain

• Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not questioning me now, this isn’t your work, I’m not an enemy agent spewing wireless code! I’m just a minging Scots slag screaming insults at your daughter! So enjoy yourself and watch! Think of Isolde! Think of Isolde and watch!

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Enemy
  • Enjoy
  • Watch

• Listen, here's my questions to anybody when they talk about comedy. When you are with your friends who don't judge you, what do you say? And if that's appropriate to say with your friends, why is it not appropriate anywhere else. Like I hate those people who judge me and are hypocrites.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • People
  • Hate
  • Comedy

• A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

  

  Don Marquis
  • Hypocrite