I. D. Douglas Quotes

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

Star Trek characters never go shopping.

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.

Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe." What does the 'T' stand for?" 'The.

Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.

No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.

One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you begin to use your time effectively.

There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

I enjoy talking to fans.

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

I just spent my whole life training and focused on one thing, I really don't even think about after the fact! It's like, oh yeah, I have to do something after!

Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.