Doe Quotes
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When one door opens, so does another one.
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Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?
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A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.
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It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.
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He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.
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Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight
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I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.
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If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill you in your sleep.
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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current
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God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.
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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.
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Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
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The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.
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The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
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What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide
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Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
