All Quotes

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
‐‐ Taylor Hawkins

The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one.
‐‐ Bernard Sumner

The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
‐‐ Mary McLeod Bethune

The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.
‐‐ Adam Clayton

The drums were new to me; I was just playing what was in my head. I was a guitar player originally - so on the drums, I just played what was in my head rather than caring too much about what others were playing. And in that way, I came up with a simple but unique style.
‐‐ Tommy Ramone

The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.
‐‐ Sue Townsend

The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.
‐‐ Jeb Bush

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.
‐‐ Gro Harlem Brundtland

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
‐‐ James Mark Baldwin

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.
‐‐ Joel Silver

'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity.
‐‐ George A. Moore

The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.
‐‐ Paul Feig

'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.
‐‐ Dinaw Mengestu

The Duke of York has never remarried.
‐‐ Tina Brown

The dull routine of our daily job takes on a new significance, assumes a beauty and importance undreamt of before, if we consider it from the angle of service to God.
‐‐ Godfrey Winn

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
‐‐ Andy Rooney

The dullest thing in the world is waiting for your scene. But the most exciting thing is seeing yourself on the screen and then getting compliments.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

The Dumas memoirs - which I also discovered when I was a kid - had a big impact on me.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice.
‐‐ Frank Black

The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.
‐‐ Jim Courier

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

The Duplass brothers do that so well - that very simple, very horrifically awkward comedy.
‐‐ Timothy Simons

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

The Dutch are a very practical people.
‐‐ Famke Janssen

The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.
‐‐ Michiel Huisman

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
‐‐ Clarence Budington Kelland

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
‐‐ Moliere

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
‐‐ Andrew Jackson

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.
‐‐ Adam Rickitt

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
‐‐ Aristotle

The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner.
‐‐ Robert P. McCulloch

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.
‐‐ David F. Houston

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
‐‐ Salva Kiir Mayardit

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain

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.
‐‐ Jay Roach

The DVR thing has rocked my world. Being on the road, I used to not keep up with any shows. Now I got a DVR, so I'm watching everything: 'CSI: Miami,' my favorites 'Criminal Minds' and 'The Mentalist.' I like some of the HBO stuff, 'Entourage' and 'Eastbound & Down.' My wife got me into the 'Grey's Anatomy' deal, so I'm watching that.
‐‐ Jason Aldean

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.
‐‐ Robert Fortune

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.
‐‐ John Updike

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!
‐‐ Annie Lennox

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
‐‐ Corliss Lamont

The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.
‐‐ Simon Kuznets

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
‐‐ Gabriel Marcel