Dubin Quotes & Sayings

Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street. — Al Dubin

Ask me about my childhood, and I will tell you to walk to the edge of the woods with a choir of crickets chirping from every direction, a hot, humid breeze brushing through your hair, your feet, bare and callused. Stand there, unmoving, and watch the dance of ten thousand fireflies blinking on and off in the darkness. Inhale the scent of cured tobacco, freshly plowed southern soil, burning leaves, and honeysuckle. Swallow the taste of blackberries, picked straight from the bushes, and lick your teeth, the after-taste still sweet in your mouth. Now, stretch out on the ground and relax all your muscles. Watch nature's festival of flickering lights. — Brenda Sutton Rose

The rumble of a subway train,
the rattle of the taxis. — Al Dubin

Our knowledge is very limited; because Nature, too, is shy and slow in our clumsy hands. Some day all this will be better organized, and still better. — H.G.Wells

I am a huge fan of the transgender community. — Kesha

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others. — Bernard Malamud

The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it, all of which is happening, of course, without human knowledge. Typical ... — Amanda Dubin

Rado explains that people with depression are usually too dependent on the judgments of others for their own sense of self-esteem. — Nick Dubin

What if winning the gold medal at the Olympics wasn't the end?
What if ... it was only the beginning? — Amanda Dubin

Timmy has no intention of going on the trip. He has never been on a sightseeing tour before and according to him, he is never going on one, end of discussion. Who wants to see a stupid planet called Earth, anyway? — Amanda Dubin

So? I know damn well that I didn't poison her.
Veronica Lane, M.D., Treating Murder — Gabrielle Black

The human brain has a natural ability, inherent in its mechanism, to work on many levels, in a process of constant promptings, in a type of self-preservation.
If only humans understood ...
Most ignore it. — Amanda Dubin

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong! — Al Dubin

What is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits. — Martin Luther

We wanted a name that people would remember and get pissed off about. Nothing too deep, believe me. — Joe King

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business. — Bruce Barton

The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication. — Harrison Owen

They're all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody's going. — Johnny Depp

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced. — Gilbert Adair

It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse. — Wislawa Szymborska

I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot. — Betty White

Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating. — Sheryl Sandberg

Tiptoe through the tulips with me. — Al Dubin