John Gregory Dunne quote: "In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves."

Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping m...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, b...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobil...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded ve...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Evading military service has a long history in American life.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlist...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

The volunteer military has always been most enthusiastically, even devoutly, embraced by those who w...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

An Episcopalian military institution when it was founded near the turn of the century, Harvard for y...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not fo...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. Th...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no o...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left ...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

For interns at 'The Weekly Standard' or 'National Review,' where the martial instinc...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

There are no legends about the Duponts; the legends are about Howard Hughes.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an accept...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

a sense of well-being so profound that I did not want to go to sleep.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to ...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

How does 'flu' morph into whole-body infection?
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. ...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgivin...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

There was no pretense to objectivity; 'Time' had a partisan Republican point of view, and if...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

For thirty-five years, David Halberstam, an unsilent member of the Silent Generation, has contemplat...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But...
IRENE DUNNE

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
IRENE DUNNE

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
IRENE DUNNE

You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
IRENE DUNNE

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
IRENE DUNNE

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.
IRENE DUNNE

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who...
DOMINICK DUNNE

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
GRIFFIN DUNNE

I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroo...
DOMINICK DUNNE

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any s...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we go...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

But it may be too politically unpalatable in the U.S..
MICHAEL DUNNE

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
DOMINICK DUNNE

This is a watershed in the development of the auto industry in China. The Chinese formed joint ventu...
MICHAEL DUNNE

Why the spurt? Small cars powered by gas-sipping engines that start at $4,000.
MICHAEL DUNNE

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away w...
DOMINICK DUNNE

My old man always told me to retrace my steps, but what’s the point if I can’t remember where my...
JONATHAN DUNNE

My old man always told me never do anything during the day that will keep you awake at night.
JONATHAN DUNNE

Even if we don’t have a clock, we’re all on the clock – from clocking in and out at work to cl...
JONATHAN DUNNE

Lately, their love had been reduced to yellow emojis.
JONATHAN DUNNE

So how do you know she was a mermaid if you didn’t see her bottom half?
JONATHAN DUNNE

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We coul...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

I think we kind of underestimated them. We came out tired. When we realized that we weren't playing ...
KELLY DUNNE

Hyundai's ascendancy shows that American consumers are always open to a good deal.
MICHAEL DUNNE

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if...
PHILIP DUNNE

Seeing his daughter slowly die, coupled with his infinite sadness and misery, the clockmaker becomes...
JONATHAN DUNNE

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of ag...
PHILIP DUNNE

I've always felt I was shortchanged in the departments of height and physique.
DOMINICK DUNNE

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most p...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

It's always bittersweet to sell your client. But hopefully you're never really selling the business,...
JIMMY DUNNE

John and the North Fork team gave us a chance. And Herman was a great teacher and partner. He always...
JIMMY DUNNE

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and a...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

What do you mean? In Old Castle? I still live with my parents in case you haven’t noticed, Jack. T...
JONATHAN DUNNE

We were paying attention to the $500 million and $1 billion companies 10 years ago, so when they gro...
JIMMY DUNNE

No, there was nothing unusual in any of these dreams as dreams. They were merely displaced in Time.
J.W. DUNNE

In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which di...
J.W. DUNNE

Our intention, over time, is to drive a substantial amount of our revenue onto a multi-trip flight-p...
BRIAN DUNNE

She was a gallant soul. I knew her from way back because Gig Young was a good friend of mine. I alwa...
DOMINICK DUNNE

They are left out there with egg on their face.
DOMINICK DUNNE

[So and so] is still alive?!
DOMINICK DUNNE

I am so bummed out. I had gotten all excited about Catholicism again. I just loved all the people an...
DOMINICK DUNNE

But some jokes are hilarious until they become true and they’re not so funny anymore.
JONATHAN DUNNE

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
GRIFFIN DUNNE

You’re wrong about one thing: fairy-tales do exist. Millions of existing parents read existing fai...
JONATHAN DUNNE

I always wonder why condescending snarkiness is the chosen method of communication for so many forum...
GAVIN DUNNE

People I know inside Chery say (it will happen) no sooner than 2008.
MICHAEL DUNNE

People get a lot of 'wow' here. You can see a sky so crowded with swallows, it reduces the amount of...
PETE DUNNE

He wants to put his electorate first and I respect that decision,
PETER DUNNE

It was quite a heady time. Living in a guesthouse in the hills and just having a crazy life. And I t...
ROBIN DUNNE

That venue is set up for dancing.
RICHARD DUNNE

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world ...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

There are no friends at cards or world politics.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, c...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off ...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that think...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

No, sir, th dimmycratic party aint on speakin terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neck...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a c...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, c...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones t...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the fac...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection ...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserve...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Don't jump on a man unless he's down.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, c...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

I'll now fall back a furlong or two in me chair, while me larned but misguided collagues r-read th' ...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Have you ever really wanted to be able to do something, but you came across a roadblock of some kind...
DEANIE HUMPHRYS-DUNNE

Charlene's thoughts:
I'm next in the green jumper's Class. I thought I'd be in the red jumpers'...
DEANIE HUMPHRYS-DUNNE

I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama.
You can be, Charlie, as long as y...
DEANIE HUMPHRYS-DUNNE

Excerpt:
Here are some thoughts from Charlene the Star:
“I’ll bet that’s why Mama pu...
DEANIE HUMPHRYS-DUNNE

She really is a shining star. Imagine how far she's come since she was on the farm in Ohio. She's ou...
DEANIE HUMPHRYS-DUNNE

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
PETER FINLEY DUNNE

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship b...
DICK GREGORY

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an...
LADY GREGORY

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd h...
DICK GREGORY

Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereot...
GREGORY BENFORD

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and...
LADY GREGORY

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as b...
LADY GREGORY

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
LADY GREGORY

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after tim...
LADY GREGORY

I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tong...
LADY GREGORY

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
LADY GREGORY

It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every...
LADY GREGORY

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
LADY GREGORY

The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon ...
LADY GREGORY

It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the M...
LADY GREGORY

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
LADY GREGORY

It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it w...
LADY GREGORY

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
LADY GREGORY

It takes madness to find out madness.
LADY GREGORY

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good pla...
LADY GREGORY

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on ear...
LADY GREGORY

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may b...
LADY GREGORY

To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of u...
LADY GREGORY

My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two mon...
LADY GREGORY

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, ...
GREGORY HARRISON

As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal colu...
GREGORY BENFORD

We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod a...
GREGORY STOCK

In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They col...
GREGORY BENFORD

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated...
GREGORY STOCK

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but arou...
GREGORY HARRISON

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it ...
DICK GREGORY

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.
GREGORY NUNN

Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was c...
GREGORY BENFORD

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.
GREGORY NUNN

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
GREGORY NUNN

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
GREGORY NUNN

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
GREGORY NUNN

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to sup...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I...
GREGORY CORSO

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who sho...
GREGORY NUNN

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
GREGORY NUNN

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
GREGORY NUNN

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
GREGORY NUNN

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY

The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It sa...
GREGORY NUNN

And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you...
DICK GREGORY

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
DICK GREGORY

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very mi...
LADY GREGORY

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the ...
GREGORY CLARK

I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORY

But no matter which path we take, Nessa, there will always be trying times. Faith is believing that ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY

[Nessa] didn’t know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY

Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a...
KRISTIANA GREGORY

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest a...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that...
GREGORY PECK

As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has ...
GREGORY PETSKO

We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
GREGORY BENFORD

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyra...
LADY GREGORY

I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Cool...
LADY GREGORY

In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves.

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