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That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.


Dean Koontz

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DEAN KOONTZ Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely.

"You co...
NORTON JUSTER I was concerned that the rain would move the doves, but it seems like there are more doves now than ...
JOHN COX We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous....
MICHAEL EASTON Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries ...
DEAN KOONTZ ....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'texture...
JEANNETTE WALLS In this world only the paranoid survive.
DEAN KOONTZ As the cheering continued, Rhyme leaned forward and touched Milo gently on the shoulder.
"The...
NORTON JUSTER I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for my...
MACAULAY CULKIN I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the ba...
NORMAN REEDUS I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon'...
AARON RUELL Stupid deer," I said, embarrassed about being startled. "We need a ladder."

"I think they...
OBERT SKYE I said 'no,' because I didn't want to expose myself in that way. But I said, 'But I will do this cha...
HELEN FIELDING Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. Wh...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respe...
GAYLE LYNDS I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis...
MAC DAVIS You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very int...
KATE THOMPSON We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER I always took precautions by taping my ankle but around home you don't tend to do that and I tripped...
ASHLEY AITKEN The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't ...
DEAN KOONTZ In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen mom...
DEAN KOONTZ this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhilir...
PRISCILLA WARNER Do not let the tears fool you. She lied and cheated once, she will again. Your call to continue with...
TREVON CLARK I don't think man and woman should be compared, You don't compare things that complete one another.
FAITH N. Those who want to hear from you will let you hear from them.
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KEITH RICHARD I saw rowing in the Olympics and I said, 'I want to do that. That's my sport,' ... I had always been...
CLAIRE GILBERT I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunc...
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BOBBY FARRELLY Do. Then talk. In that order.
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WAYNE DAVIS She said go ahead, I handled the house before while you was gone, I guess I can do it again.
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ZIYI ZHANG I do want to believe that there's some place in the world that's more mature than high school," Vick...
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CAMILLE SWEENEY You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER The built-in trunk is long overdue. Leave it to Honda to do the simple things and do them well.
JOSEPH BARKER I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody...
DONALD TRUMP My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orang...
JONATHAN KRISEL Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You know, Eric, I could have sworn I heard a goat bleating while I was working in the slype yesterda...
CATHERINE AIRD I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
FLORENCE HENDERSON And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Cor...
NEIL GAIMAN Your name must be Mr. Dressup, cause I want to put my toy in your tickle trunk.
DICK VON HARDIGAN They (fellow inmates) were there for me and helped me out when I was in there, ... But it was a bad ...
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ANQUAN BOLDIN It's been successful enough that I've dared to do it again. I didn't know if people would continue t...
KATHRYN CHILDERS I took a year and a half off after the tour from the last record, and there was a point where I didn...
ALANIS MORISSETTE I want it to lead to a trilogy, because I want to do this again.
NATHAN FILLION Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again."
BILLY IDOL I really want to do a Western. I want to be the dude who is riding horses and doing exciting things ...
MARGOT ROBBIE When we did that, I said I would never do that again.
GLADYS BETTIS Little Red Riding Hood was a good story, but it wasn't interactive. Sooner or later I wanted to say ...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN I remember seeing 'Aladdin' when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen...
DARREN CRISS I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, bu...
JACK ABRAMOFF One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each o...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.
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DAVID BYRNE Last year, I had to rehab it for two or three months. So when [I injured the finger again], I had th...
JUSTIN SPEIER This was completely unfair and I was happy to see the dean saw it our way.
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JAMES C. DOBSON Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything m...
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DEYTH BANGER Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom...
PENELOPE LIVELY I said going into the ballgame that I thought there was a little bit of an advantage in having a sen...
GARY PATTERSON What did you do to help the invisible man?"
And he felt the monster's voice again, like it was ...
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JOE MANTEGNA The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. N...
DENZEL WASHINGTON Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <...
MARGARET MCMULLAN I didn't say he was dating you," he said, "but funny that you knew just what I meant, isn't it?"
CASSANDRA CLARE Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word th...
SARAH DESSEN I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah H...
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JOEL KINNAMAN It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back agai...
NEIL GAIMAN Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils."
Era...
JOHN FLANAGAN It was horrible. It was just a horrible feeling leaving that stadium. I never want to feel that way ...
DENNIS DAVIS I really wasn't-how shall I say it-singly interested in Dean, but I was interested in the origins of...
DENNIS STOCK I was riding at Calder, but they said I couldn't ride there because I was 16 years old. So when I tu...
PABLO MORALES The umpire was a little uncomfortable with me. I just didn't pay attention to it. The pitch was insi...
WANDY RODRIGUEZ Yes," Jace said, "I regret having disobeyed you."
No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I hope it sells millions, ... But more immediately, my real excitement was the idea that Kubrick was...
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ETHAN ZUCKERMAN The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, fil...
BILL HADER I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.
ELLIOTT SMITH I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album ...
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DEAN KOONTZ Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I sai...
DEAN KOONTZ Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they go...
DEAN KOONTZ The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.
DEAN KOONTZ Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life wo...
DEAN KOONTZ They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the...
DEAN KOONTZ Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.
DEAN KOONTZ I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."

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DEAN KOONTZ Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drin...
DEAN KOONTZ It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear...
DEAN KOONTZ You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.
DEAN KOONTZ From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...
DEAN KOONTZ That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...
DEAN KOONTZ She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w...
DEAN KOONTZ For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
DEAN KOONTZ One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I...
DEAN KOONTZ I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
DEAN KOONTZ That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.
DEAN KOONTZ Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
DEAN KOONTZ The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with...
DEAN KOONTZ The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen i...
DEAN KOONTZ Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog...
DEAN KOONTZ it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a...
DEAN KOONTZ Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it ...
DEAN KOONTZ Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life c...
DEAN KOONTZ There’s such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But ...
DEAN KOONTZ He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was s...
DEAN KOONTZ The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
DEAN KOONTZ He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not ...
DEAN KOONTZ His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cat...
DEAN KOONTZ The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them...
DEAN KOONTZ But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s in...
DEAN KOONTZ