Donald Fagen Quotes

Now why the hell would I want to increase the volume of my ejaculation ? They can already hear me in the apartment next door.

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• One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Time
  • World
  • Age

• My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Comedy
  • Come
  • Studies

• In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Live
  • Invest

• I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Recognize
  • Volume
  • Appreciative

• You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Guy
  • Today

• Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.

  

  Jack Keane
  • War
  • Harmony
  • Conflict

• The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I was saddened, of course, but felt a sense of relief that he was at last free from the indignity of aging.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Free

• I love what I do, I love every minute of it.

  

  Lena Dunham

• When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I've learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics.

  

  Kim Raver
  • Live
  • America
  • Culture

• I'd always been close to my brother. Very close.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Brother

• I would like to visit with people who are so interesting and so... and there are so many wonderful people out there that I would love to have the chance to talk to for a longer time.

  

  Janet Reno
  • People
  • Time
  • Interesting

• Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.

  

  David Shields
  • Work
  • Age
  • Wine

• What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.

  

  Kirsten Dunst

• Philosophy was as naive as science in its unconscious acceptance of the assumptions or dynamic of typography. (p. 278)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Science
  • Acceptance

• I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.

  

  Alice James
  • Writing
  • May
  • Interesting

• Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Life
  • True

• Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Thoughts
  • Young

• I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Scared

• As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Popularity
  • Volume
  • Science fiction

• I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • Brain
  • Living
  • Fantasy

• No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.

  

  Kamila Shamsie
  • Writing
  • Power
  • American

• Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language – a something between compliments and – and love – to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

  

  Jane Austen
  • Love
  • Friendly
  • Acquaintance

• Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Music
  • Different
  • Political

• Now why the hell would I want to increase the volume of my ejaculation ? They can already hear me in the apartment next door.

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan
  • Volume
  • Ejaculation
  • Next Door