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DEAN EISNER If it's not growing, it's going to die.
MICHAEL EISNER Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over man...
MICHAEL EISNER It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetim...
MICHAEL EISNER When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested i...
MICHAEL EISNER There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would character...
MICHAEL EISNER I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I...
MICHAEL EISNER Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering...
MICHAEL EISNER Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
MICHAEL EISNER A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the f...
MICHAEL EISNER If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, an...
MICHAEL EISNER I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic f...
WILL EISNER The term "comics" long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the earl...
WILL EISNER Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the ...
KURT EISNER It's very important for me to maintain contact with the reader, because I'm writing to someone, and ...
WILL EISNER I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of 'moving uptown,' becoming a...
WILL EISNER Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story ...
WILL EISNER Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what peop...
WILL EISNER We would make an unbeatable team [to Michael Ovitz]
MICHAEL EISNER Thanks to his deep understanding of the company and its founders, talking to Card was the next-best ...
MICHAEL EISNER What I'm pretty sure is, it is not going to be a No. 1 bestseller for 26 weeks, ... And I'm also pre...
MICHAEL EISNER My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
MICHAEL EISNER Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of...
MICHAEL EISNER These assets are completely complementary to our existing holdings, and they all go to Disney's
MICHAEL EISNER As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.
WILL EISNER I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.
MICHAEL EISNER Although our third-quarter earnings were not as favorable as those of the prior year, I am pleased w...
MICHAEL EISNER Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I wa...
WILL EISNER I made sure my tenure did not end until Hong Kong Disneyland opened and several other things were wr...
MICHAEL EISNER I believe that — in spite of this courageous, not comic but tragic book by Will Eisner — the sto...
WILL EISNER I've spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of hist...
WILL EISNER The devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is simply heartbreaking and our thoughts are with t...
MICHAEL EISNER There's no good idea that can't be improved on.
MICHAEL EISNER We've had a bright year, ... We are seeing improvement across key financial measures, but we are not...
MICHAEL EISNER There has been (talk on Wall Street) that major media companies are out of favor. I have seen this c...
MICHAEL EISNER You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.
WILL EISNER A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a li...
WILL EISNER In comics, images are generally impressionistic. Usually, they are rendered with economy in order to...
WILL EISNER Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports...
WILL EISNER Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbi...
WILL EISNER While we cannot determine or predict the timing of a return to normalcy, we are focused on those fac...
MICHAEL EISNER It means understanding that different kinds of oppression are interlinked, and that one can't libera...
SHIRI EISNER All professionals should teach at some time in their career because they are obliged to pass on what...
WILL EISNER The great depression left a mark on all of the civilized world. It was a defining moment like a gian...
WILL EISNER The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
WILL EISNER The work we do is as demanding as any of the great painters because nothing that happens on the page...
WILL EISNER In the beginning of the century, in 1900, the newspapers in this country began running comic strips,...
WILL EISNER Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will h...
WILL EISNER Memory is a very amorphous thing. It is selective and shaped by emotion . . . people are constantly ...
WILL EISNER Art is literacy of the heart.
ELLIOT EISNER Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic...
MICHAEL EISNER We have a great new CEO. I've known him a decade and he understands broadcasting. He understands the...
MICHAEL EISNER It has been a fantastic ride for the past 20 years. Ups and downs, to be sure, but filled with great...
MICHAEL EISNER Net income for the first three quarters of 2005 is nearly equal to all of 2004,
MICHAEL EISNER We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not forma...
ELLIOT EISNER The performance of GO.com continues to reflect the nascent stage of both the Internet economy and ou...
MICHAEL EISNER He has the ability to calm me down, ... He's a solution junkie.
MICHAEL EISNER I regret Sandy's decision, but I accept it and respect his desire to pursue new ventures,
MICHAEL EISNER The new Store has a fresh and clean look that offers a number of advantages: it is a much more flexi...
MICHAEL EISNER Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.
MICHAEL D. EISNER Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
JIMMY DEAN I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.
DEAN BAKOPOULOS Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
JIMMY DEAN I'm limitless, spontaneous and fearless. I can take direction and also give it. And I don't ...
ESTER DEAN Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or s...
DEAN KOONTZ An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki...
JAMES DEAN When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi...
JAMES DEAN To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this grea...
JAMES DEAN To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to ...
JAMES DEAN Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
JAMES DEAN The only greatness for man is immortality.
JAMES DEAN An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences li...
JAMES DEAN I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And...
JAMES DEAN I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
JAMES DEAN Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things ...
JAMES DEAN I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is end...
JAMES DEAN The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.
JAMES DEAN Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im...
JAMES DEAN There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEAN You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'...
JAMES DEAN Racing is the only time I feel whole.
JAMES DEAN Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life...
JAMES DEAN I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ...
JAMES DEAN I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.
HOWARD DEAN The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some rig...
HOWARD DEAN Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. ...
HOWARD DEAN Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in ...
PAMELA DEAN I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
PAMELA DEAN I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculi...
PAMELA DEAN I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
PAMELA DEAN I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his ...
PAMELA DEAN From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created...
HOWARD DEAN Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.
DEAN KARNAZES At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and va...
HOWARD DEAN Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face...
DEAN ORNISH Intimacy and community buffer stress.
DEAN ORNISH If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.
DEAN KOONTZ We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk th...
DEAN RUSK I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food....
ESTER DEAN If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
DEAN SMITH I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin...
JIMMY DEAN My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done i...
JIMMY DEAN You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
JIMMY DEAN I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can...
JIMMY DEAN I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hand...
JIMMY DEAN I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's lik...
JIMMY DEAN A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as...
JIMMY DEAN When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat,...
JIMMY DEAN I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, ...
JIMMY DEAN I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
JIMMY DEAN Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
JIMMY DEAN Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
JIMMY DEAN I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair...
DEAN AMBROSE The great privilege it has been to work with some of the most talented people on the face of the ear...
DEAN JONES We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year. I remember once when we ...
DIXIE DEAN For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?.
JIMMY DEAN I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
JIMMY DEAN I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.
DEAN ACHESON The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is th...
DEAN ACHESON No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making thems...
DEAN ACHESON The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from t...
DEAN ACHESON Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
DEAN ACHESON If I ever go onstage at the Oscars, you can guarantee I'll be wearing my motorcycle boots.
DEAN WINTERS WWE is like showbiz boot camp.
DEAN AMBROSE It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN Diebold controls 20% of the nation's voting machines.. totals can apparently be manipulated from out...
HOWARD DEAN We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
DEAN RUSK A little dark chocolate in small amounts often helps lift me out of those blue moments. When I walk ...
DEAN ORNISH Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditatio...
DEAN KOONTZ I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've alw...
DEAN KOONTZ Magnesium deficiency can produce symptoms of anxiety or depression, including muscle weakness, fatig...
CAROLYN DEAN Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because...
DEAN KOONTZ the worst happens when you least expect it
DEAN KOONTZ No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disag...
DEAN KOONTZ Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.
JAMES DEAN It ain't braggin' if you can back it up.
DIZZY DEAN I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
DEAN SMITH Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
DEAN ACHESON I got words in me, Jess, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there's so many words and they get so...
CAROLEE DEAN Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, u...
DEAN KOONTZ One can only tolerate the absolute idiocy of Man for so long before bringing out the bat.
DEAN HALE If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.
DEAN KOONTZ Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much ...
DEAN KOONTZ Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.
DEAN MCLAUGHLIN One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
DEAN RUSK I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're ...
DEAN MARTIN If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
DEAN MARTIN Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
JAMES DEAN The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors...
DEAN SMITH I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
JIMMY DEAN If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, y...
DEAN SMITH Every eye sees its own special vision,
every ear hears a most different song.
In each man's ...
DEAN KOONTZ When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed an...
DEAN MARTIN Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there wi...
DEAN KOONTZ Each small act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives un...
DEAN KOONTZ You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a...
JOHN DEAN A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
DEAN ACHESON Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that lit...
DEAN BRIGGS The great corrupter of public man is the ego....Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from...
DEAN ACHESON We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument ...
DEAN ACHESON Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
DEAN ACHESON You see, you all start with the premise that democracy is some good. I don't think it's worth a damn...
DEAN ACHESON Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
DEAN ACHESON The future comes one day at a time.
DEAN ACHESON Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.
DEAN CAIN The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
DEAN ACHESON The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be e...
DEAN ACHESON I throw a ball and get paid for it. Others do it by throwing the bull.
JEROME DEAN Run if you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.
DEAN KARNAZES We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument ...
DEAN ACHESON If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, ...
DEAN SMITH Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, onl...
DEAN KOONTZ Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means t...
DEAN RUSK Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
JAMES DEAN It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since...
JAMES DEAN Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
JAMES DEAN We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
DEAN RUSK Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree
DEAN ACHESON I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is...
DEAN ACHESON Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowi...
DEAN KOONTZ I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know...
HOWARD DEAN John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly e...
HOWARD DEAN First of all I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he'...
HOWARD DEAN When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over t...
DEAN MARTIN Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
DEAN INGE To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to e...
JAMES DEAN I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you...
DEAN MARTIN Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
JAMES DEAN The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.
DEAN ACHESON You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not...
JIMMY DEAN Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.
DEAN ORNISH When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it's easier to make ...
DEAN ORNISH Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after...
HOWARD DEAN I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by ho...
DEAN KAMEN Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in...
DEAN ORNISH Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide ...
DEAN ORNISH Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science...
DEAN KAMEN