Dennis Quotes Quotes & Sayings

I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

I'll say that for all the good things, all the great things, the super wow things it can do, the heart is kind of an asshole. The strongest feelings we have are never when things are stable, never when things are solid, never when we can handle things. The sharpest feelings are when things are either super good or super bad, as if the heart only ever wants to add gasoline to a fire. And the heart has all the subtlety of a freight train. It's going to hit you, and it's going to hit you hard. — Dennis Liggio

Empower your possibility with the power of your promise. — Tony Curl

What is most admirable about firefighters, is there reliability. When they are called, they come — Dennis Smith

It's impossible to park on Tremont or even idle there for more than thirty seconds. A platoon of meter maids, imported from the female Hitler Youth shortly after the fall of Berlin, roam the street, at least two to a block, pit bull faces on top of fire hydrant bodies, just waiting for someone stupid enough to stall traffic on their street. — Dennis Lehane

People surprise you sometimes. — Dennis Lehane

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine. — Seth Godin

How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas. — Dan Miller

Avoid chattering in the company of fools, because the same fools might mistakenly think that you are one of them. — Dennis Adonis

If you hurt her I'll make you pay. I may be old, but that doesn't mean I can't make you suffer."
"Damn right. You've got the AARP on your side. — Shannon K. Butcher

If a person loses hope, they have lost everything. (I tried to put this one in the earlier quotes section, but it never loaded properly.) — Dennis Moulton

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself. — Black Elk

Failure is that from which we learn, Successes are nothing more than a proper mixture of luck and timing. — Daniel Robinette

Oh, y'know, magic stuff is full of weird vibrations!" said Dane. "Makes your palm sweat, gives you that pins and needles sensation when you hold it! Maybe something running up your arm." He paused. "Something that isn't a spider or a bug. Something running up your arm that's an invisible sensation. But not an invisible spider. Like an invisible feeling that's pins and needly. Maybe more needles than pins."
"Are you sure that's not a heart attack?" said Jaya. — Dennis Liggio

Never close the doors of opportunity to climb through the windows of peril. — Dennis Adonis

Michael Palin : "I am sorry to interrupt you there Dennis, but he's crossed it out. Thomas Hardy here on the first day of his new novel has crossed out the only word he has written so far and he is gazing off into space. Ohh! Oh dear he's signed his name again."
Graham Chapman: "It looks like Tess of the D'Urbervilles all over again."
- Matching Tie and Handkerchief, "Novel Writing — Graham Chapman

A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth. — Dennis Adonis

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership. — Beau Willimon

It is a moral travesty to give a woefully thirsty man a drink of water in a measuring cup. — Dennis Adonis

You must come to read the face of life with understanding. — Jack London

Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on ... — Dennis R. Miller

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose. — Dennis Miller

Instead of feeding the memories with resistance, I starved them with acceptance. I denied them the attention they demanded. I refused to give my abuser that kind of power over me. The monsters under my bed would be there by invitation only. — Dennis Randall

The world of literature is a sacred mirror that shows not the reality around us but the dreams and fears that reality stimulates: It's not where we live, but life itself. — Dennis Vickers

I have the whole team just around the block! One call and they'll ride in here like cavalry! Riding on... robots! Giant robots! Well, not giant robots, like in Egan, but... but... big enough robots! — Dennis Liggio

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it. — Dennis Miller

The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe. — Leonid Brezhnev

Life can never be perfect. Don't let anyone fool you into believing that it will be. — Dennis Adonis

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion. — Dennis Lehane

In a kingdom of thieves, the ways of an honest man will always be a crime. — Dennis Adonis