I. D. Douglas Quotes

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

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

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?

The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code.

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

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

Technology favors horrible people.

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

Vision without implementation is counterproductive.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

Money itself isn’t lost or made. It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

Never forget those who were killed. Never let rest those who killed them.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

I would rather create a precedent than find one.