All Quotes

Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.
‐‐ Ryan Seacrest

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.
‐‐ Annette Funicello

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.
‐‐ John Oates

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.
‐‐ Cyndi Lauper

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.
‐‐ Fergie

Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.
‐‐ Sidney Blumenthal

Dick Dale don't surf no more.
‐‐ Dick Dale

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
‐‐ Peter Straub

Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
‐‐ Sam Brownback

Dick Enberg is still around and still being as good as he ever was.
‐‐ Jim McKay

Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.
‐‐ Kenneth Langone

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.
‐‐ Joe Rogan

Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn't tell you a joke.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

Dick Martin was a good buddy, and he was always a lot of fun to have around.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator or whatever gizmos he'd got at the time to make it sound a little more electronic.
‐‐ John Leeson

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.
‐‐ Nolan Ryan

Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.
‐‐ Dave Foley

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
‐‐ Douglas Wood

Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.
‐‐ Elisabeth Rohm

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

Dickens belongs to the English people.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
‐‐ Anne Rice

Dickens is always full of surprises.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
‐‐ George Orwell

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.
‐‐ Matthew Pearl

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

Dickens was very practical and sensible.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer.
‐‐ Helen Oyeyemi

Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
‐‐ Lech Walesa

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.
‐‐ George Ayittey

Dictators are interesting, no?
‐‐ Martin Parr

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
‐‐ Sacha Baron Cohen

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.
‐‐ Jimmy Reid

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.
‐‐ George Ayittey

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
‐‐ Charlie Chaplin

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
‐‐ Richard Perle

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
‐‐ R. Buckminster Fuller

Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.
‐‐ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
‐‐ Ismail Kadare

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
‐‐ Plato

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
‐‐ Barbara Amiel

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
‐‐ Richard Perle

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
‐‐ M. F. K. Fisher