Doe Quotes - Page 228

For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.

All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.

It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.

Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.