Don Perata quote: "We still have an opportunity, but I believe the best opportunity has passed us by. I assume after what was said here this evening nobody is going to want to see something pasted together over the weekend and thrown on your desk on Monday. I certainly don't. Not any more. So now were talking about November."

When you go to Washington, you get no satisfaction. You come back and you put in an amount of money ...
DON PERATA

I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven b...
DON PERATA

That was over the line. A blatant effort to promote the initiative.
DON PERATA

However, the governor's proposing a lot more spending than we are. It's unclear how he plans to pay ...
DON PERATA

We don't even have a computer capable of doing this, much less the personnel or a plan.
DON PERATA

I think on the face of it, it's a reasonable thing.
DON PERATA

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move th...
DON MARQUIS

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midst...
DON MARQUIS

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church ...
DON MARQUIS

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have ...
DON MARQUIS

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
DON MARQUIS

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
DON MARQUIS

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
DON MARQUIS

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
DON MARQUIS

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get...
DON MARQUIS

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your ...
DON CHEADLE

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

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
DON DELILLO

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he fin...
DON DELILLO

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work throu...
DON DELILLO

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginnin...
DON DELILLO

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what ...
DON DELILLO

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his li...
DON DELILLO

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to ...
DON DELILLO

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
DON DELILLO

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
DON DELILLO

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...
DON DELILLO

The future belongs to crowds.
DON DELILLO

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and t...
DON DELILLO

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id...
DON DELILLO

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
DON DELILLO

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
DON DELILLO

America was and is the immigrant's dream.
DON DELILLO

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ...
DON DELILLO

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time whe...
DON DELILLO

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
DON DELILLO

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

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
DON HEROLD

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he cou...
DON MARQUIS

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.
DON PIATT

I am just another insect on the windshield of life.
DON MASHAK

Speak low if you speak love.
DON PEDRO

Get the job done.
DON SHULA

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
DON SHULA

I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
DON MARQUIS

This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they...
DON DELILLO

A naked woman was amazing.

He'd never seen it this way, in full light, without half-off c...
DON DELILLO

Throughout History, Empires have persecuted the great agitators; Noah, Socrates, Jesus, Columbus, Vo...
DON MASHAK

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age ...
DON DELILLO

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within mem...
DON CAMPBELL

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
DON MARQUIS

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS

To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.
DON PIATT

Where one door closes, another opens.
DON QUIJOTE

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
DON HEROLD

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
DON HEROLD

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
DON MARQUIS

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in m...
DON MARQUIS

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
DON HEROLD

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money...
DON MARQUIS

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
DON HEROLD

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
DON HEROLD

America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame Ame...
DON DELILLO

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of c...
DON DELILLO

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the ma...
DON DELILLO

Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
DON HIRSCHBERG

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for ...
DON MARQUIS

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
DON MARQUIS

It's easy to point when you can't heal it.
DON WALK

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
DON HEROLD

Christian means coming from Christ. Just as a Californian comes from California and a Bostonian is s...
DON WALK

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the...
DON MARQUIS

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
DON MARQUIS

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
DON SHULA

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
DON MARQUIS

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
DON MARQUIS

Hardship makes the world obscure.
DON DELILLO

I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
DON JOHNSON

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
DON HEROLD

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
DON MARQUIS

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
DON MARQUIS

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
DON SHULA

I would rather start a family than finish one.
DON MARQUIS

now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out ...
DON MARQUIS

The American Judicial System is the best appearance of justice that money can buy!
DON MASHAK

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but b...
DON DELILLO

For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.
DON HUTSON

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
DON HEROLD

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when th...
DON DELILLO

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun
DON HENLEY

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a...
DON BARTHELME

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the tw...
DON DELILLO

Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
DON GALER

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
DON MARQUIS

a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely somethin...
DON MARQUIS

prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
DON MARQUIS

Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.
DON HAYS

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's t...
DON DELILLO

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
DON MARQUIS

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance....
DON DELILLO

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
DON MARQUIS

The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustai...
DON DELILLO

Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
DON MARQUIS

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that ga...
DON MARQUIS

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
DON HEROLD

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
DON KNUTH

The USA has become government by the highest bidder because USA voters do not hold politicians accou...
DON MASHAK

If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless...
DON DELILLO

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ...
DON ROFF

The nobler the blood the less the pride
DON MARQUIS

The future belongs to crowds
DON DELILLO

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity
DON CUPITT

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
DON SHULA

Babies are such a nice way to start people.
DON HEROLD

It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
DON HEROLD

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
DON MARQUIS

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
DON MCLEAN

An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all a...
DON DELILLO

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
DON KNUTH

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
DON HEROLD

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
DON HEROLD

Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
DON HEROLD

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantit...
DON MARQUIS

A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies.
DON PIATT

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
DON WILDER

Babies are such a nice way to start people
DON HEROLD

Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.
DON RITTNER

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
DON WOOD

No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.
DON RITTNER

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
DON MARQUIS

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
DON DELILLO

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not b...
DON ADAMS

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee mu...
DON KING

Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.
DON NICKLES

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.
DON NICKLES

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortsto...
DON YAEGER

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of i...
DON DELILLO

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.
DON RICKLES

Re-election comes every six years, which explains why I spend so much time on Twitter. If you're...
DON WILLETT

Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player w...
DON YAEGER

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of ind...
DON DELILLO

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
DON DELILLO

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
DON RICKLES

I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first...
DON BAYLOR

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been...
DON JOHNSON

I transcend earthly bounds. I never cease to amaze myself because I haven't yet found my limits....
DON KING

Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through ...
DON KARDONG

I'm an ardent American Football fan.
DON KING

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in b...
DON CHEADLE

I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a...
DON MCCULLIN

You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.
DON LEMON

I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really...
DON MCLEAN

If you're a Texas Supreme Court Justice hopscotching across 254 counties, trying to tattoo your ...
DON WILLETT

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the ech...
DON MARQUIS

My wife knows that I thrive on independence, and whatever girls live with me must know that, too. Th...
DON HO

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furth...
DON DELILLO

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politic...
DON HENLEY

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
DON MARQUIS

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguish...
DON SHERWOOD

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