I. D. Douglas Quotes

There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole.

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last.

One is never alone with a rubber duck.

and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.

I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

Kindness is not an act, it's a lifestyle.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.

To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.

Big data isn’t about bits, it’s about talent.

It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

I came through and I shall return.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Of all sweet passions Shame is the loveliest.

I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.

Oh, I get it, it's simple. PG means the hero gets the girl, 15 means that the villain gets the girl, and 18 means everybody gets the girl.

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

If food were free, why work?

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.

We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.