I. D. Douglas Quotes

I give myself a pep talk and visualize the routine. I tell myself: "I can do this, let's go!"

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.

The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.

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

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

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.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

if we pursue the arms race no other problem will be solved.

You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.

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.

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

I'm a huge poster collector.

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

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

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

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

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.

Every empire eventually falls.

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

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.

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

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.

I don't want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.