In the subways, in many of the streets, in corners of the park at night, contact could be dangerous. Contact was not a word or a touch but the air that flashed between strangers.


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Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
DON KING
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
DON HENLEY
Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
DON RICKLES
When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil...
DON WILLETT
When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's mean...
DON MCCULLIN
Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. ...
DON WILLETT
I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it'...
DON BLUTH
A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
DON HENLEY
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
DON PIPER
what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and...
DON MARQUIS
ihave often noticed thatancestors never boastof the descendants who boastof ancestors i wouldrather ...
DON MARQUIS
If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
DON KING
The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. Tha...
DON KARDONG
In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watc...
DON AMECHE
I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I...
DON HENLEY
My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo...
DON KING
If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders ...
DON TAPSCOTT
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
DON SHULA
The person who has no enemies has no followers.
DON PIATT
Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
DON RICKLES
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
DON MARQUIS
Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.
DON MARQUIS
So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
DON MARQUIS
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
DON MARQUIS
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
DON MARQUIS
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
DON MARQUIS
Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to d...
DON RICKLES
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
DON MARQUIS
The 2 Major US Political parties have divided and conquered the US Voters by making elections about ...
DON MASHAK
Speaking to how elections are framed in the USA: It is not Republican vs Democrat, nor Conservative ...
DON MASHAK
OZOCRACY - Watch the spectacle (or divisive, polarizing issue) we, the politicians, have created or ...
DON MASHAK
Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it ...
DON EVERLY
Old men need applause too
DON EVERLY
Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor gam...
DON COOPER
If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'...
DON MARQUIS