All Quotes

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.
‐‐ Tony Williams

Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I'd done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore.
‐‐ Neil Peart

Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren't expecting me to go and do it.
‐‐ Anderson Paak

Drumming is my middle name.
‐‐ Ringo Starr

Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
‐‐ John Bonham

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.
‐‐ Chad Smith

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.
‐‐ Mayer Hawthorne

Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
‐‐ Levon Helm

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
‐‐ Levon Helm

Drums were my first instrument.
‐‐ Dick Dale

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
‐‐ Patrick Stump

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
‐‐ Seneca

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

DSLRs take beautiful pictures, but they are hard to focus.
‐‐ Ren Ng

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
‐‐ C. L. R. James

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.
‐‐ Edward Norton

Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.
‐‐ Gregg Allman

Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
‐‐ Gavin Rossdale

Dubai Airport will peak at a maximum of 100 million passengers a year, which would limit Emirate's growth, but the new Al Maktoum International with its capacity for another 120 million passengers will allow us to continue growing.
‐‐ Maurice Flanagan

Dubai has got very little oil; it is Abu Dhabi that has got the oil. Dubai has very small resources, and it is running out, so the government's plan has been to relieve Dubai of any dependency on oil at all by 2010.
‐‐ Maurice Flanagan

Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Dubai's a pretty powerful place.
‐‐ Solange Knowles

Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade, tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.
‐‐ Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.
‐‐ James Chanos

Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses.
‐‐ George A. Moore

Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.
‐‐ Martin McDonagh

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
‐‐ Samuel Beckett

Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever.
‐‐ Louis MacNeice

Dubois, later in his life, would join the Communist party and renounce his American citizenship. His 'integration at all costs' message would, decades later, continue to influence the community's self-perception.
‐‐ Burgess Owens

Dubois was the first black American to graduate from Harvard. He was accepted within the northern white intellectual circles as one of the 'best of his race.' As an avowed socialist, he was the only black member of the original 19 wealthy socialist founders of the NAACP.
‐‐ Burgess Owens

Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.
‐‐ James Blake

'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in.
‐‐ David Duchovny

'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?
‐‐ Dan Auerbach

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.
‐‐ Chris Rock

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.
‐‐ Dave Lombardo

Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.
‐‐ Breaux Greer

Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.
‐‐ Kevin Smith

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.
‐‐ Eric Holder

Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

Due process policies such as tenure are put in place to protect good teachers from being fired without cause. They aren't there to protect 'bad' teachers.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.
‐‐ Cesar Romero

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
‐‐ Philip Emeagwali

Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.
‐‐ Chris Cornell

Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.
‐‐ Kelsang Gyatso