I. D. Douglas Quotes

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

I have no regrets coming back for a second Olympic team [in 2016]. It's been an amazing experience. It's been teaching me a lot.

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

Don't make excuses and don't talk about it. Do it.

Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.

For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.

Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

That's why I'm such a big sports fan, with sports you can never guess what's gonna happen. Most movies you get halfway through and you can kind of guess the ending.

Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.

Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.

Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.

We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.

Every empire eventually falls.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me

Everyone's hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks - and it's much more accepted.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

Human beings cannot live without stories.

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.

I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).

I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?

On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.

WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.