I. D. Douglas Quotes

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

You want to picture yourself being on top and doing amazing gymnastics.

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.

Did I choose my hair texture? No. I'm grateful for having this hair on my head.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?

It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice... Restorative justice is a fad.

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

I'm just a tough old woman.

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve.

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

"What's up?" "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

I had started at a small startup as a big-company guy. Now I was leaving a big company as a small-startup guy.

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.

It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.