I think they have been sitting on their hands for a while.
DAVE MCCULLOUGH The last round of layoffs were directly related to natural gas prices. This last round was a group o...
DAVE MCCULLOUGH Starting in 2000, we started having problems with customers turning to China, and then all of a sudd...
DAVE MCCULLOUGH It is a readjustment. We're going to stay here and I think we will survive this, but it won't be eas...
DAVE MCCULLOUGH To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To ...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
DAVID MCCULLOUGH You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.
You've got to become them."
(S...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I lived in the US for donkeys' years so it has been a journey back in time for me. If you have had p...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH Because of No Child Left Behind, sadly, history is being put on the back burner or taken off the sto...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. ...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they sh...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that ...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not ve...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH [It could be argued that the Johnstown flood of 1889 wasn't a natural disaster at all, but the inevi...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Tar Heel would always come through and just pound North State. But it was fun, and I think it's alwa...
CLAYTON MCCULLOUGH It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creatu...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."

(Interv...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH It couldn't have happened on a more appropriate day, given that she's been so much involved all alon...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH dropping the key in the box and slipping away in the night.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH The problem with Adams,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I have to tell you, of all of Washington's strengths, his greatest strength was that he would not qu...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH They took stock of the situation, and they realized the war was over and we had lost,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH They might not look like soldiers, they might not know much about drill, and soldier's life . . . an...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH The Johnstown flood was not an act of God or nature. It was brought by human failure, human shortsig...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH When the founders spoke of the pursuit of happiness they didn't mean longer vacations or more stuff....
DAVID MCCULLOUGH It was like the parting of the seas.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH The man who emerges is truly heroic, and that was a surprise for me, ... This is a greathearted fell...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Real success is finding your lifework in the worth that you love.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH We who are residing in a foreign country, away from the immediate scene of action, perhaps can feel ...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we ...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH If they want to make us park [in the stadium lots], then they should make the parking affordable. Bu...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I personally don't want to see a nickel of my tax dollars subsidize a private development.
BILL MCCULLOUGH People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I haven’t the faintest idea....
DAVID MCCULLOUGH My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Jake has tremendous feet and hands. He gets rid of the ball and he's very accurate, which is key. Yo...
CLAYTON MCCULLOUGH The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH The Great Bridge, The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
DAVID MCCULLOUGH If my dad got chewed up like that ... I can assure you I would have been calling everybody.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH Because so many things were rationed, it was a big deal to get almost anything. Since I wore a unifo...
BILL MCCULLOUGH When we make films, the approach we take is visually different. The angles we use, for example, that...
BILL MCCULLOUGH We call ourselves filmmakers; that's what we do from start to finish, and it really takes advantage ...
BILL MCCULLOUGH We had a couple of lapses and they made it close at the end, but it's good to have a win again. When...
JOHN MCCULLOUGH They (the publishers) would be ecstatic, I just refuse to. You can't repeat a great act.
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH It is one of the biggest, best sellers of all time,
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH I came across a lot of material I wanted to use for the Adams book and wasn't able to,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I think how pleased he and Abigail would be if they were here to see how we've gathered today, ... t...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH We can know a lot by (Adams') friends and his loyalty to them, ... In the face of political disagree...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH It's a mistake and a great shame,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH YOU DON'T HAVE TO WALK IN A MAN'S SHOES TO KNOW WHERE HE'S BEEN. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS, BUY HIM A NE...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH It means I don't have much depth of vision,
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH The author perceptively outlines what might be an underrated aspect of his subject and of many other...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH We read (the phrase) in the forward, where it talked about speakeasies. We didn't want a bar and gri...
SANDY MCCULLOUGH Meggie dropped to her knees, scrambling frantically to collect the miniature clothes before more dam...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH We're exploring options. We want to make this as painless as possible.
ELLIOTT MCCULLOUGH I think I'll wear the Chian outfit,' he said to his body servant standing waiting for orders. Many m...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH A lot of people get these dogs because they want - pardon my expression - a bad-ass dog.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH We knew how preventable that was.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH We have a sneaking suspicion where it is.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH In the animal kingdom, it's a constant struggle. If you have an animal not happy with its position i...
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH It's not fit for human habitation, let alone animals.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH This dog, yesterday morning, we didn't think it was going to survive an hour. We were very concerned...
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH And they were solid blacked out when we got started. Even their transmission lines were down.
ELBERT MCCULLOUGH We packed up our stuff that night and spent their rest of the time we were there sleeping in their g...
ELBERT MCCULLOUGH We were about to get a little depressed after three days without seeing any lights.
ELBERT MCCULLOUGH That's in Marion County, near Guin.
ELBERT MCCULLOUGH Once it was down, it was pretty easy. You just have to water it and mow it at specific times.
ELLIOTT MCCULLOUGH I guess it's also easier for players to slide on, but that's the only other purpose it really serves...
ELLIOTT MCCULLOUGH That's my job. We won't let this happen again.
ELLIOTT MCCULLOUGH The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airpla...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their mos...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH You didn't happen to install Windows when you upgraded me, did you?
KELLY MCCULLOUGH People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with y...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I haven’t the faintest idea. ...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what w...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Gr...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH It's funny because even to this day, people still know what Little League team they played for. And ...
CLAYTON MCCULLOUGH You could look at the guy next to you and you knew what he went through. You'd know you'd go through...
CLAYTON MCCULLOUGH To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I may not have any power over it at the moment, but at some point that must change. I can be very pa...
KELLY MCCULLOUGH Any time you go anywhere on the road it is going to be tough.
JASMINE MCCULLOUGH Any time you go anywhere on the road it is going to be tough. You can't let the other team's fans ge...
JASMINE MCCULLOUGH It's a hustle thing. People just start staring instead of getting in there and fighting.
JASMINE MCCULLOUGH Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a mak...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In wha...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there a...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the b...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Sally's a good consistent hitter. She's been that way. She'll hit that ball. She makes stuff happen....
NELSON MCCULLOUGH It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH "Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a ...
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH ...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an a...
DAVID WILLIS MCCULLOUGH History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we ...
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a f...
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH "Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a ...
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH JR. History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shor...
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold th...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH JR. I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a ...
DAVE MATTHEWS Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But...
DAVE ATTELL Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans ...
DAVE WINFIELD Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
DAVE BARRY We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admi...
DAVE BARRY Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
DAVE ANDERSON For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
DAVE BARRY What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another pe...
DAVE BARRY Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
DAVE BARRY Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is ...
DAVE BARRY If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...
DAVE BARRY Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to a...
DAVE BARRY The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
DAVE BARRY It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
DAVE BARRY The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
DAVE BARRY I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bod...
DAVE BAUTISTA A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are t...
DAVE ATTELL As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hindui...
DAVE DAVIES I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I s...
DAVE GAHAN The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.
DAVE FOLEY When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood abou...
DAVE DAVIES Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a...
DAVE BRUBECK And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, stra...
DAVE EGGERS That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.
DAVE HAYWOOD So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attentio...
DAVE EGGERS You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students a...
DAVE EGGERS The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it se...
DAVE BRAT Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
DAVE BARRY A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each...
DAVE FINKEL Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to be...
DAVE MORRIS Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm ...
DAVE ROWNTREE It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civ...
DAVE MATTHEWS We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some hea...
DAVE OBEY Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is th...
DAVE BARRY If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
DAVE BARRY The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes i...
DAVE BARRY I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated ...
DAVE GAHAN I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.
DAVE FREUDENTHAL The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're...
DAVE GROHL I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do...
DAVE LEGENO It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
DAVE BARRY The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is va...
DAVE DEBRONKART Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones'...
DAVE MORRIS Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son ...
DAVE GAHAN If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to...
DAVE BARRY The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or...
DAVE BARRY The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..
Everything is ONE!
DAVE ZEBIAN I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a mor...
DAVE BARRY I'm so alive.

As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afte...
DAVE PELZER 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narr...
DAVE MORRIS I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't thi...
DAVE MATTHEWS I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at on...
DAVE SITEK We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
DAVE FARBER We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless...
DAVE BARRY The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitutio...
DAVE BARRY There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slu...
DAVE MATTHES ...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.
DAVE MATTHES I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
DAVE BARRY That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth...
DAVE EGGERS I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to l...
DAVE EGGERS Quantity is what you count, quality is what you count on.
DAVE BARRY It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know ...
DAVE BARRY You had me at "We'll make it look like an accident."
DAVE BARRY Wear short sleeves! Support your right to bare arms!
DAVE BARRY I'd take a nerf bullet for you.
DAVE BARRY What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my car...
DAVE BARRY The first person who decided to say a word instead of throwing a rock can be considered the starter ...
DAVE BARRY It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have...
DAVE BARRY I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to r...
DAVE BARRY Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
DAVE BARRY I may not know Karate, but I know crazy and I'm not afraid to use it.
DAVE BARRY In beer there is freedom, in wine there is health, in cognac there is power and in water there is ba...
DAVE BARRY Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.
DAVE EGGERS Wake up naked drinking coffee
Making plans to change the world
While the world is changing...
DAVE MATTHEWS Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see wi...
DAVE BARRY Can you imagine the reaction of a British tabloid newspaper if they found a small school in rural En...
DAVE GORMAN We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time...
DAVE EGGERS How could I have been anyone other than me?
DAVE MATTHEWS My band career ended late in my senior year when John Cooper and I threw my amplifier out the dormit...
DAVE BARRY