R- THE DON Quotes

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

We are saddened to hear of the untimely death of Christian Audigier. It is a sad end to a brilliant marketer; his incredible energy and vision brought my artwork to global attention.

When you work with words, words are your work.

Where do you want it?

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.

We show a lot of film [with Regis Philbin] from my career which is most enjoyable. I enjoy watching it.

Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don't look back, you can never look back.

I love to see my records broken, I really do, you get a chance to relive your life, the whole experience.

If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more daisies.

I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.

When you come up with a good idea, you dont have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

If you got ears, you gotta listen.

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

There are two kinds of climbers... smart ones and dead ones.

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.

Old men need applause too.

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

The future belongs to crowds.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

Learn from everyone, copy no one.

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.