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Douglas Lain

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KELLY JONES The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND She needs to go to jail, for her own punishment and to deter others.
GARY GAMBARDELLA He didn't commit these crimes for any of the usual reasons we hear, like needing money to support a ...
GARY GAMBARDELLA Society is better off with handcuffs around Hopkins’ wrists rather than a stolen ring around his g...
GARY GAMBARDELLA I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
CLIFF FADIMAN No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
ANONYMOUS Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any...
STEPHAN GRELLET Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
PATRICA FRIPP I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.
JAMES T. FARRELL The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
WALTER BAGEHOT Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
AUSTIN PHELPS Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
ED HOWE I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
FRAN LEBOWITZ When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
HILAIRE BELLOC Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
DAWN ADAMS Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
DR. EMMIT FOX Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.
FANNIE FLAGG Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying th...
UNKNOWN The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
BIBLE To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
ANONYMOUS Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
MONTESQUIEU No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Taking Mr. Durkin off the steets puts a Grand Canyon-sized hole in the local drug business.
GARY GAMBARDELLA It was a great sentence. He will die in prison.
GARY GAMBARDELLA His parole officer hasn't been born yet.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.
GEORGE ORWELL Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life...
DAVID LEVITHAN The state’s case went extremely well.
ANNE EDWARDS I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO A teacher is better than two books
GERMAN PROVERB A book is an invitation to enter another person's mind and heart.
JAIME CONTRERAS The dragon took his other arm. But he is still a dragonslayer, no matter what.
RUTH FORD ELWARD You and I. We’re going back. People are dying because of this beast. It must be stopped. And we wi...
RUTH FORD ELWARD He couldn't move. Running would get him killed. Fighting would get him killed. …Standing where he ...
RUTH FORD ELWARD They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte...
ERRI DE LUCA The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the avera...
GEORGE ORWELL The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
GLASER AND WAY Calamity is man's true touchstone.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER A man must be potent and orgasmic to ensure the future of the race.
A woman only needs to be avai...
MASTERS AND JOHNSON The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
GLASER AND WAY Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
LICHTY AND WAGNER It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an e...
WATANABE AND AVAKIAN There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parame...
TROUBLE AND STRIFE I sometimes think that I don't have a purpose in this world.
I am simply useless and wanderin...
GINGER AND ROSA Patricia Compton, you are great at what you do and your beautiful spirit added so much to our specia...
REAH AND PAUL The key to finding beauty is to know where to look.
SEIGFRIED AND ROY That boy was going to make the world turn, and the stars would fall like rain.
TWIST AND SHOUT For my 2015 Book Reading Challenge resolution, the 1 (one) book I want to read is titled: "Write, yo...
ROLF AND RANGER A person who never made a mistake, never made anything." ~Rosamund Pilcher, Endings and Beginnings
ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS The wrong decision in this case could be a fatal one.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Instead of a fiance’ and a wife, Hopkins gets a warden and a parole officer.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
MORTIMER ADLER This film is very heavy and intense at times, and I think in order to make it a well-rounded movie, ...
JASON BIGGS When watching a Steve McQueen movie on TV: "He must have made that before he died
YOGI BERRA The ability to make wise choices is the most valuable skill a person can develop.
ABHISHEK RATNA […] You are very right in supposing how my money would be spent – some of it, at least – my lo...
JANE AUSTEN Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
KōBō ABE Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.
CHRISTOPHER B. KREBS When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Look, I'm wrong sometimes. This is one of the times I hope I am.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in...
ERNEST GAINES This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go...
CLARA BARTON There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and ...
DREW BARRYMORE The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need t...
C. JOYBELL C. Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.
JOHN GREEN Light and dark ain't supposed to mix. They're like broccoli and chocolate - just nasty when you put ...
H.M. WARD Books! And cleverness! There are more important things-friendship and bravery and-oh Harry-be carefu...
J.K. ROWLING The terms that describe the 21st century woman are mould and moisture, that does not mean aata and p...
APURVA GAGLANI The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
JOHN STEINBECK If I've learned anything in my life, it's that there is no darkness so absolute that it cannot be di...
KERRIGAN BYRNE As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern.

He...
WELTY EUDORA The bridge was destroyed. These six young men took it upon themselves to take a beautiful Bucks Coun...
GARY GAMBARDELLA They were not Robin Hood, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, they were stealing from chi...
GARY GAMBARDELLA Winners never cheat and cheaters never win...but sometimes they find themselves in court pleading gu...
GARY GAMBARDELLA The heinous nature of the crime. The cover-up afterwards. The denial. They were all, to me, earmarks...
GARY GAMBARDELLA It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
GEORGE ORWELL Have you ever seen The Last of the Mohicans?"
"I love it."
"Really?" I'm over the m...
MELINA MARCHETTA Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beac...
MICHAEL CAINE For the entire state of Georgia, having the première of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like ...
ANNE EDWARDS

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TOMMY DOUGLAS Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS God only knows what else is on the web about me.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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ILLEANA DOUGLAS In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very e...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly bec...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I come from a pretty strange family.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you c...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there ...
GABBY DOUGLAS Smile, it's free therapy.
DOUGLAS HORTON I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.
DOUGLAS LEONE Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
TOM DOUGLAS The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we t...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.
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STEPHEN DOUGLAS There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and wh...
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DOUGLAS REED The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
NORMAN DOUGLAS What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
NORMAN DOUGLAS To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
NORMAN DOUGLAS You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
NORMAN DOUGLAS This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
DOUGLAS ADAMS In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart o...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one....
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DOUGLAS BOOTH This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the In...
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DOUGLAS CONANT It's very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagi...
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GABBY DOUGLAS When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the pri...
DOUGLAS CONANT A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buy...
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TOM DOUGLAS I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But i...
KYAN DOUGLAS I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
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GABBY DOUGLAS My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a b...
GABBY DOUGLAS You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
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DOUGLAS JERROLD Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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DOUGLAS JERROLD Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.
DOUGLAS JERROLD I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for...
DOUGLAS JERROLD A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
DOUGLAS JERROLD After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
DOUGLAS JERROLD Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece...
DOUGLAS WILDER It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can ...
TOM DOUGLAS I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Time is bunk.
DOUGLAS ADAMS For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'tr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictu...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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DOUGLAS ADAMS In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
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DOUGLAS WILDER We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
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DOUGLAS WOOLF Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
DOUGLAS ADAMS and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tel...
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SCOTT DOUGLAS I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
DOUGLAS ADAMS For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is...
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DOUGLAS ADAMS Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”
“Yeah,” said the voice from...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't Panic.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you m...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet g...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Experience is the best teacher.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
DOUGLAS ADAMS A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
DOUGLAS PAGELS Reality is frequently inaccurate.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whethe...
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DOUGLAS COUPLAND Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest iron...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford
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DOUGLAS ADAMS Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."

"Ah, well, I'm...
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DOUGLAS ADAMS If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
KIRK DOUGLAS The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded prof...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find...
NORMAN DOUGLAS A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient...
DOUGLAS ENGELBART I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
DOUGLAS HURD I've never felt better.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
NORMAN DOUGLAS It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.
DOUGLAS MALLOCH When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have ...
DOUGLAS LURTAN The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing whe...
DOUGLAS EVERETT People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of thei...
NORMAN DOUGLAS