All Quotes

The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'
‐‐ John W. Gardner

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.
‐‐ John M. Ford

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.
‐‐ Bruno Maag

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.
‐‐ Mary Antin

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.
‐‐ Mary Antin

The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet.
‐‐ Thomas Mallon

The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

The Da Jing street market is little more than a few narrow intersections, barely six blocks long. But for a visitor, it is a living, breathing education in Shanghai cuisine, a style distinguished by its thick savory sauces spiked with sugar and soy sauce.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides

'The Daily Beast' and Howard Kurtz have parted company.
‐‐ Tina Brown

'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.
‐‐ Tina Brown

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
‐‐ Gary Larson

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.
‐‐ Chris Cleave

'The Daily Mail' interviewed my friends in Jamaica to find out if I was ever the victim of a vicious homophobic attack because, to them, I'm a gay refugee. But nothing like that happened. So, no surprise, that story didn't appear. I'm really pretty boring.
‐‐ Marlon James

'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
‐‐ Bruce Jackson

The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
‐‐ Said Sayrafiezadeh

'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it's written mostly by men.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.
‐‐ Miriam Defensor-Santiago

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
‐‐ Sidney Sheldon

The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.
‐‐ Joe Nichols

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.
‐‐ Richard Gere

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.
‐‐ Jeremy Piven

The Dallas model, prominent in the South and Southwest, sees a growing population as a sign of urban health. Cities liberally permit housing construction to accommodate new residents. The Los Angeles model, common on the West Coast and in the Northeast Corridor, discourages growth by limiting new housing.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
‐‐ Louis Leakey

The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us.
‐‐ Theodore C. Sorensen

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.
‐‐ David Suzuki

The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.
‐‐ Atul Gawande

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.
‐‐ James Mooney

The dance community suddenly came alive with programs like 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'America's Best Dance Crew' and 'Dancing With The Stars.'
‐‐ Nigel Lythgoe

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
‐‐ Mata Hari

'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.
‐‐ Laurieann Gibson

'The Dance Scene' is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the videos and you never realize what goes on behind the scenes. The reality and the preparation. The motivation I have to give each dancer on that set.
‐‐ Laurieann Gibson

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.
‐‐ Siobhan Davies

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.
‐‐ Amy Sherman-Palladino

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
‐‐ Doris Humphrey

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
‐‐ Isadora Duncan

The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

The Danes don't take themselves seriously at all and look for the joke in everything. Us Scots are on the same line of latitude and have the same amount of light, which may be why we have a similar sense of humour.
‐‐ Jamie Sives

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
‐‐ Charles Churchill