Donald Quotes

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.

A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

Rapper, just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated, people still bring a lot to it.

Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

My injuries are a long way from my heart.

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

The much heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional and has a mayor.

Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action.

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

If you're more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

AS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.

I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in

My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

Every snowflake is unique, yet they are each perfect.

I have a temperament where I know how to win. Hillary Clinton doesn't know how to win.

Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough.

Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.

I'll tell you what, with Hillary Clinton, I said be at my wedding and she came to my wedding. You know why? She didn't have a choice...