Darrell Quotes & Sayings

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money. — Darrell Issa

I had hoped God would be neutral. — Darrell Royal

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy. — Darrell Royal

Killing a teenager would be no big deal at all. — Darrell Pitt

Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week. — Darrell Huff

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption. — Darrell Issa

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea. — Darrell Issa

I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements. — Darrell Hammond

Now, what am I here for, again?' There's genuine humility, and courage, in that question. — Darrell Calkins

In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA - because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death. Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent. — Darrell Scott

IF YOU can't prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind, hardly anybody will notice the difference. The semiattached figure is a device guaranteed to stand you in good stead. It always has. — Darrell Huff

I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.' — Walt Garrison

I don't have the proudest moment in football. — Darrell Royal

She murdered for her truth, and they had died for theirs. — Darrell Drake

A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference. — Darrell Huff

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it. — Dimebag Darrell

Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be sad about. — Darrell Bock

Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence. — Darrell Issa

Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack. — Darrell Issa

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays. — Dimebag Darrell

I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on Cemetery Gates ... the next morning, the second and third solos weren't bad, but the first had that first take magic ! .. I didn't touch it ... — Dimebag Darrell

Conscience exists as a reality-check for intent, but it's not intent itself. Anyone who really plays, explores and celebrates life has the right intent. — Darrell Calkins

College kids, don't be taking examples from me. — Darrell Hammond

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands. — Darrell Issa

Our greatest joys and inspirations are usually found behind our fears. The trick is just to find fun in the force of Nature, wherever it manifests. — Darrell Calkins

I've said my patience is not infinite. — Darrell Issa

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle. — Darrell Issa

Everyone has a past. — Darrell Issa

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players. — Dimebag Darrell

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something. — Dimebag Darrell

Politics is cyclical. — Darrell Issa

My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen! — Darrell Scott

I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people. — Darrell Hammond

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. — Dimebag Darrell

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.' — Dimebag Darrell

NASCAR logic isn't always logical. — Darrell Waltrip

Forgiveness isn't an end in itself. The point of forgiveness is to remove the barrier that stands between us and God so that He can give us His Spirit and bring us into His everlasting family. — Darrell Bock

Live in such a way no one who reads your obituary will be surprised you're a Christian. — Darrell Case

Well, I'm going to try to make a real difference in Washington's spending patterns. — Darrell Issa

Just because a man has money it doesn't mean he'll treat you right. — Darrell Debrew

When you are on the right path, you know it. You become the person you were created to be. You start to acknowledge the God within you. — Darrell Foster

Sustainable serenity, joy and fulfillment demand greater spiritual virtuosity, which is only found through deeper integration of conscience into the mix of one's core intent. — Darrell Calkins

The Superior Power in Black America is a movement. — Darrell Daro Freeman Sr.

There is a duality to darkness known only to those who've been infected by its touch. Everyone knows the shadows: shallow, comfortable, mostly harmless places where one might nest for a night. But the depths of living pitch only visit the aristocracy of madmen and women who've unwittingly pledged fealty to the curse. For some, it outright ruins minds like a hound to fresh meat; for others, it wanes into the deepest parts of its less caustic sibling and waits for the time to strike, returning periodically through life like an incurable disease. — Darrell Drake

Not setting goals and objectives for a relationship is like a ship setting sail for the land of nowhere in particular. — Darrell Roberts

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact. — Darrell Issa

For one thing, I like to walk when I play golf. Now I don't walk the whole way, but I try not to be the driver when in a cart. — Darrell Royal

It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,' — Darrell Green

My wife, Edith, and I both have good health - and she's been very tolerant. — Darrell Royal

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it. — Darrell Royal

I have the greatest respect and admiration for Congressman Issa, but I don't intend to be Darrell Issa-like. — Jason Chaffetz

It's easier to say (I'm going to be myself and if anyone wants to be with me, then she/he has to accept me as I am ... flaws and all) than it is for us to work at reducing our flaws and making ourselves more acceptable. — Darrell Roberts

How many people are watching a movie right now, or reading a book or listening to a song or looking into their life or dreaming with this profound, conscious or not, yearning more than anything for some kind of relationship somewhere with someone or something that would cause them to stagger in intimate rawness in friendship and love? — Darrell Calkins

They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces. — Darrell Royal

The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense. — Darrell Huff

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it. — Darrell Royal

On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant. — Darrell Royal

You might be a redneck if your wife wants to stop at the gas station to see if they've got the new Darrell Waltrip Budweiser wall clock. — Jeff Foxworthy

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend. — Darrell Issa

You know what's worse than being in rehab? Being in rehab over the holidays. You know what's worse than that? Being in a rehab that doesn't allow smoking. I mean, what the fuck? Addicts smoke. If we can't drink, we can't shoot up, and we can't ride the lightning bolt, at least we can smoke. — Darrell Hammond

I support the framework that the bipartisan group of senators are working on ... We have to remember the 11 million people who are here are people ... [i]t's what Abraham Lincoln would have said, it is what the Republican Party stands for. It is the reason we have to get it right on who stays and who goes. — Darrell Issa

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score. — Darrell Royal

It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it. — Darrell Huff

Real readers re-read good books. — Darrell Bain

I've been to the combine a couple of times since I've graduated to see the talent coming through. It's about keeping tabs on who's coming up next. I tell them "You've got to deliver. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." You've got to be sure to succeed in it. — Darrell Wallace Jr.

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you. — Darrell Huff

Act One: Get your hero up a tree. Act Two: Throw rocks at him. Act Three: Get him down out of the tree. - attributed to George Abbott, on playwriting — Darrell Fusaro

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life. — Darrell Royal

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands. — Dimebag Darrell

Dance with the one who brung ya. — Darrell Royal

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since. — Darrell Royal

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning. — Dimebag Darrell

He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing. — Darrell Royal

I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life. — Darrell Issa

I've always said your legacy is what you leave behind you. — Darrell Waltrip

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones. — Darrell Royal

Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet. — Guy Clark

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there. — Darrell Hammond

The divine is a mystery, so the impulse to really discover, like a child, has to be the core response to anything. — Darrell Calkins

My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff. — Dimebag Darrell

The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets. — Darrell Royal

Potential just means you ain't done it yet. — Darrell Royal

If you worked with Darrell, or for him, the dealings rarely remained confined to business. Darrell put too much of his heart into everything else that he did to leave it out just because his head had got involved. Those two organs didn't often work independently of one another, except when a third (his liver) applied peer pressure. — Anonymous

I can also speak to small woodland creatures, he grins at me. — Gwenn Wright

The greatest tragedy in life is our inability to experience and express fascination for the people and events we love while in their presence. — Darrell Calkins

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper. — Darrell Royal

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries. — Darrell Royal

There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting. — Darrell Royal

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf. — Darrell Royal

A stone can be used for building a house, blocking a road, or killing someone. The same is true for any idea. — Darrell Calkins

There was an assumption that I was personally attacking Sarah Palin by impersonating her on TV. No one ever said it was 'mean' when Chevy Chase played Gerald Ford falling down all the time. No one ever accused Dana Carvey or Darrell Hammond or Dan Aykroyd of 'going too far' in their political impressions. You see what I'm getting at here. I am not mean and Mrs. Palin is not fragile. To imply otherwise is a disservice to us both. — Tina Fey

If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting. — Darrell Waltrip

Every song is different. — Dimebag Darrell

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining. — Darrell Issa

Unnatural, unorthodox, amoral: those pretensions crumble when confronted by true happiness. You shouldn't give another the authority to draw a line defining the boundaries of acceptable joy. — Darrell Drake

Luck comes when you bend to the requirements of reality. — Darrell Calkins

Told reporters Wednesday he can support a pathway to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and that he actually prefers it to a plan that would create a second-class of citizens through alternative programs. — Darrell Issa

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it. — Darrell Hammond

Extrapolations are useful, particularly in that form of soothsaying called forecasting trends. But in looking at the figures or charts made from them, it is necessary to remember one thing constantly: The trend-to-now may be a fact, but the future trend represents no more than an educated guess. Implicit in it is "everything else being equal" and "present trends continuing." And somehow everything else refuses to remain equal, else life would be dull indeed. — Darrell Huff

I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again. — Darrell Hammond