Funny Simon Doonan Quotes & Sayings

I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours. — Jay Parini

Dismiss any thought that leads to discouragement. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He didn't go down to dinner at all that night, didn't eat, didn't drink, simply thought of his wife, trying to decide what to do with her. He'd wanted her to suffer, and she'd suffered. He'd wanted her to pay for her deceits, and she'd saved his life. He'd wanted to torment her with the knowledge that she would never see him again and had instead created his own private hell. He wanted her to come to him again, giving herself to him as she had that night before her attempted escape, and he wanted to hear words she would never speak. He'd even started lying to himself as he lay sleepless in his bed, reliving each moment of their last night together, telling himself it was real, that she'd meant every word. He was going mad. — Elizabeth Elliott

The customer is the final inspector. — Steve Jobs

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale. — Vince Lombardi

Let's get one thing straight: Mexican food takes a certain amount of time to cook. If you don't have the time, don't cook it. You can rush a Mexican meal, but you will pay in some way. You can buy so-called Mexican food at too many restaurants that say they cook Mexican food. But the real food, the most savory food, is prepared with time and love and at home. So, give up the illusion that you can throw Mexican food together. Just understand that you are going to have to make and take the time. — Denise Chavez

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. — Tom Stoppard

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied. — Henry Beston

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work? — P. J. O'Rourke

I get so into the moment. — Dane Cook

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us. — Charles Baudelaire