R- THE DON Quotes

...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

It’s not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.

I did drop out of school.

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

Peter Baltes was the best bassist I ever played with.

I am an expert witness because I say I am.

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.

One hundred ten thousand ears in this ballpark, and he's got to hit my ear.

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

Isn't death the boundary we need?

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

Every day you teach attitude.

The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

I do think the internet has killed the mystery of the planet. It's removed the pain, the passion, and the struggle - I firmly believe they're all part of creativity.

I love you as New Englanders love pie!

We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!

I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game.

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

Volunteers are caring friends

So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.

The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.