I. D. Douglas Quotes

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiance's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out.

Use plants to bring life

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.

Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

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

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.

I would rather create a precedent than find one.

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

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

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

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.

Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.

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.

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

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

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

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

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

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

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

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.

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

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.