Doe Quotes - Page 343

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Regardless of how you feel about peak oil or global warming, the increased use of natural gas is a positive thing because it is being found at a rate that is faster than that of new oil reserves, it is relatively abundant, and our reserves are longer lived than our oil reserves... It does not get the kind of attention it deserves.

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.

Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?

Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.

And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.

And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a totally meaningless term.

How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

Why does everybody thing things are always contractual? I saw a shitload of questions and thought "better keep these answers short or I'll never get to all of these".

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.

I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.

How does the weakness of the dollar affect your business?

You don't know what a semi-colon does... sort of like my act.

A good nail does not fear being hammered.

What writing does is to reveal.

I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford. (on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United)

When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.

I don't live by "The Rules" you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's Ian Botham.

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.