Doe Quotes - Page 241

How is a redneck divorce similar to a tornado? You know that somewhere, somehow, someone is gonna lose a trailer.

The media does not love Hillary Clinton left, right or center.

[ Marco Rubio] overly ambitious, too young, and I have better hair than he does.

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.

History does not have sides, although historians do.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

Crosby is a great player, but I'd have to say Ovechkin, who is also a great player but doesn't have the same kind of support, and who does something great on almost every shift.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.