I. D. Douglas Quotes

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

Love has more depth as you get older.

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

Acting is a youthful profession.

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob.

Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

A liar freely gives his oath

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

I come in peace...Take me to your lizard.

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

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

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

I would love to be remembered as someone who inspired young girls never to give up on their dreams.

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

Don't be shy. Go for it and ask your crush out.

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.

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.

To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

There's nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It's you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you've said it.

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?