Dana Quotes

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings. ~ Dana Carvey

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people. ~ Dana Stabenow

Dana daydreamed of one day being able to set her agenda at B.Altman with the same courage and tenacity as the woman who was now driving the VW while speaking animatedly about her travel plans for the near future. She would be journeying to India in search of exotic merchandise for the store's Indian extravaganza, a lavish event planned by Ira Neimark and Dawn Mello to compete with Bloomingdale's Retailing as Theater movement. The movement was the brainchild of Bloomingdale's Marvin Traub, who staged elaborate presentations such as China: Heralding the Dawn of a New Era. Typical extravaganzas featured fashion, clothing, food, and art from various regions of the world.
"I'll bring back enough items to make Bloomingdale's blush!" Nina said confidently. "And I'm not just talking sweaters, hats, and walking sticks. I'll stop first in the Himalayas and prowl the Landour Bazaar."
Lynn Steward ~ A Very Good Life ~ Lynn Steward

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out. ~ Dana Fox

Coincidence: just another way of explaining the unexplainable. ~ Dana E. Donovan

She stripped out of her bra first, then her panties.
"Happy?"
"I could be happier. ~ Dana Marton

Why do some bald guys grow ponytails? It it the same reason people too old to run always wear track shoes and sweat pants? ~ Dana Gould

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness. ~ Dana Goodyear

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother. ~ Dana Delany

By seeing it allowed to their officers, they will not be convinced that it is taken from them for their good; and by receiving nothing in its place, they will not believe that it is done in kindness. On the contrary, many of them look upon the change as a new instrument of tyranny. ~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.

My dog keeps looking at me as if he knows my secret, as if he and he alone can see my soul. That or he wants this pork chop. ~ Dana Gould

That which does not kill you usually circles around and tries again. ~ Dana Gould

Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can. ~ Dana Reinhardt

She strode up some steps and banged on the door. "Now you play nice or I'll put you in the dog house."(Alannah)
"Woof."(Christopher Beckett) ~ Dana Marie Bell

I think I deserve an apology. ~ Dana Perino

Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife. ~ Dana Gould

The writer has to be brave, I think. ~ Dana Spiotta

They deserve forgiveness. Everyone does. ~ Dana Reinhardt

I vow that from this day forward you shall not walk alone. My strength is your protection, my heart is your shelter, and my arms are your home. I shall serve you in all those ways that you require. I pledge to you my living and my dying, each equally in your care. Yours is the name I whisper at the close of each day and the eyes into which I smile each morning. I give you all that is mine to give. My heart and my soul I pledge to you. You are my Chosen One, you are my mate, and you are bound to me for eternity. ~ Dana Marie Bell

I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here - I'll get it, I'll make it. ~ Dana Gould

I handed him my heart, soul, and spirit on a silver platter and he crushed them into a million pieces. ~ Dana Mason

graffiti in the stall read: CALL DANA FOR BLOW. Colin wondered whether Dana provided fellatio or cocaine, ~ John Green

Is there an award for the best trophy? I bet they hand out a plaque. ~ Dana Gould

had a smattering of chest hair that looked ~ Dana Marton

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional ... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am. ~ Dana Goodyear

Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis. ~ Dana Gould

My father hauled boxes so I could get an education and earn enough money to pay someone to make me lift weights. ~ Dana Gould

Lately she can read a novel in two hours. She has always been an avid reader, but these days she can read much faster. The colors, the conversations, everything is much more vibrant and inclusive, as if opening a book releases genies trapped inside. The scenes and people between their covers sometimes seem more vivid than real life, with their sunny, pearl-toothed characters, the witty conversation, the handsome stranger squeezed into a subway car or knocking about on the street. Sometimes, when she finishes a book at record speed, Dana feels a slight letdown, as if a good friend has hung up the phone in the middle of a conversation. ~ Susan H. Crawford

....you "gotta do what you gotta do" to take care of your family before you could play. ~ Dana Marie Bell

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war. ~ Dana Rohrabacher

[Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job. ~ Dana Goldstein

Reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing. ~ Dana Perino

It's been years since any hillbilly has reported getting sodomized by an alien. Did they break up and not tell us? ~ Dana Gould

It is so important as a caregiver not to become so enmeshed in the role that you lose yourself. It's neither good for you nor your loved one. ~ Dana Reeve

In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails. ~ Dana Rohrabacher

To Mom, who encouraged my fascination with reading, even when she didn't understand what I was reading. ~ Dana Marie Bell

Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus. ~ Dana Hussein

Nothing woke up a man as quickly in the morning as a scorpion in his pants. ~ Dana Marton

I know that big, important things don't just come together overnight, but I've been me for a long time now and it's still not working. ~ Dana Gould

No matter what her father wanted, no way was Clara going to partner up with Light Walker. He'd suggested a tarantula for a snack, for heaven's sake.
The were never, ever, ever going to work together. ~ Dana Marton

Resilient is the wrong word for someone who attracts tragedy like a magnet but survives to watch her loved ones die. ~ Dana Mele

God, being noble sucked ass. ~ Dana Marie Bell

I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get. ~ Dana Plato

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south. ~ Dana Brunetti

I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize. ~ Dana Schutz

Whether it's foreign money or hiding emails, these stories are creating a narrative about Hillary Clinton trying to be above everyone else and operating under her own set of rules. ~ Dana Perino

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true. ~ Dana Spiotta

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans. ~ James Dwight Dana

It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous. ~ Dana Milbank

She could drive down Hadley Road until she reached the right spot, then walk in. Would have to drive by the reservoir. She didn't drive that road anymore. But even if she could, she wasn't going to chase some imaginary dead man, or almost dead man, around the countryside. ~ Dana Marton

Don't call me babe. And next time I'm letting my Metaphysical answering meachine get it. ~ Dana Marie Bell

at a first glance, natural dyes appear to be more expensive than those used for petroleum-derived synthetics, simply because of the higher cost to farm raw materials. But there are "externalities" not included in synthetic's calculation -environmentally damaging ones like fracking and oil spills. ~ Dana Thomas

Get a job and when you earn a little bit of money, then you can do more good. Then bringing your values doesn't mean you have to compromise yourself. You got to get over this idea that you can't work for a big corporation, or for big oil or bigger pharma, because actually, those are some of the great jobs are and you can do good there. ~ Dana Perino

In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there. ~ Dana Delany

Man I told Dana when I first came to the UFC, I don't wanna fight none of these bums ... I want the best. I wanted this man right here [points to poster of Brock Lesnar], but he was sick. I didn't know that. So I said, 'what about Chuck, Chuck, whatever his name is, Chuck Liddell?' He was sitting there all scared and nervous. ~ James Toney

He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins. ~ Dana Marton

The moral panic about supposedly unpatriotic educators was driven by international war hysteria combined with agitation over the growing domestic political strength of teachers unions. In 1917 and 1918, Congress passed the Espionage and Sedition Acts, which sought to ban public speech and actions "disloyal" to the United States military and government, especially among socialists, communists, pacifists, immigrants, and other groups perceived as affiliated with European leftism. More than any other force, the American Legion, a veterans' organization, pushed this ethos of unquestioning patriotism onto the nation's public schools. The Legion was influential: 16 U.S. senators and 130 congressmen identified as members. It promoted the idea that the Communist Party in Moscow actively recruited American teachers in order to enlist them in brainwashing the nation's youth. The Legion saw all left-of-center political activity as unacceptably anti-American. ~ Dana Goldstein

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me. ~ Dana Torres

They say that cats are the only animal that can sit in your lap and ignore you. To which I say: you've never been to the Spearmint Rhino. ~ Dana Gould

The Potomac had taken away Linda and the boys.
The Rio Negro had given him Daniela.
One river had swallowed his heart; another river, halfway around the world, had gifted it back. A different heart, beaten up, scarred, but a beating heart at least. ~ Dana Marton

Just saw a woman with a big tattoo of Jesus on her back. I guess it's an ixnay on the oggy style-day. ~ Dana Gould

Your external world mirrors your internal state. Heal the parts of you that need your attention or you will forever live out your pain for all to see. ~ Dana Hall LCPC, MA, TF-CBT

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening. ~ Dana Gioia

A dozen men are shut up together in a little bark upon the wide, wide sea, and for months and months see no forms and hear no voices but their own, and one is taken suddenly from among them, and they miss him at every turn. It is like losing a limb. There are no new faces or new scenes to fill up the gap. There is always an empty berth in the forecastle, and one man wanting when the small night-watch is mustered. There is one less to take the wheel, and one less to lay out with you upon the yard. You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss. ~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.

She discovered, despite what people may imagine, having nothing to lost is a lot like having nothing. (But there was something to lose, even at this point, something huge to lose, and that was why this unknown, homeless state never resembled freedom.) ~ Dana Spiotta

All of my main characters are based on my friends and people I met during High School and College. ~ Dana Journey

But her no leather - no fur policy drew fire. Critics charged that faux hides, many of which are petroleum based, were more damaging to the earth than the real stuff.

Bull, said McCartney. "Livestock production is one of the major causes of ... global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity", she shot back, with more than fifty million animals farme and slaughtered each year just to make handbags and shoes. Conventional leather tanning employs heavy metals such as chromium, which results in waste that is toxic to humans. ~ Dana Thomas

Where is the good will in the thought, I was going to throw this in the garbage, do you want to wear it? ~ Dana Gould

I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God. ~ Dana Perino

Grief is like the ocean. The waves ebb and flow. Sometimes the water is calm. Other times it's turbulent. In order to survive, I had to learn to swim. In moments when I struggled with massive waves of grief, I rode it out. ~ Dana Arcuri

Absolutely. No more pretending! ~ Dana Burkey

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. ~ Dana Carvey

I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that the terrorists are not very sophisticated. ~ Dana Milbank

Women are like pumpkins; you search and search for the perfect one, bring it home, and the next thing you know, you're looking for a knife. ~ Dana Gould

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun! ~ Dana Delany

I don't mind being alone when I'm surrounded by people, I just hate being alone when I'm alone. ~ Dana Gould

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State. ~ Dana Carvey

The older I get, the more I look like my favorite shoes. ~ Dana Gould

Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it. ~ Dana Glossbrenner

They seem to be a doomed people. The curse of a people calling themselves Christian, seems to follow them everywhere; ~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Being stuck serves a spiritual purpose. It's a bountiful harvest for transformation to occur. It tells us that a change is needed. More than any type of outward change, what's really being asked of us is an inner change. It could be a change of heart, change of priorities, a change of beliefs, or even a change of perspective. ~ Dana Arcuri

That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak. ~ Dana Stabenow

Why is it, when I have nothing to do, I drink more coffee? It's as if I'm in a big hurry to get nothing done. ~ Dana Gould

Why do I always meet women as I'm leaving the dog park with a big bag of poop? And it's always on the day I forgot my dog ... ~ Dana Gould

It's undeniable there's been remarkable progress for African-Americans in this country. They've been elected senators and governors and running major corporations, but obviously we still have a long way to go. ~ Dana Bash

Will I have to use a litter box?
Emma to Max after he just explained she'll be turning into a puma shifter
The Wallflower (Halle Pumas Book 1) ~ Dana Marie Bell

He tries to go to life. So does every author except the very worst, but after all most of them live on predigested food. The incident or character may be from life, but the writer usually interprets it in terms of the last book he read. For instance, suppose he meets a sea captain and thinks he's an original character. The truth is that he sees the resemblance between the sea captain and the last sea captain Dana created, or who-ever creates sea captains, and therefore he knows how to set this sea captain on paper ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people. ~ Dana Spiotta

I like to think of Doritos as emotional packing material to safeguard the feelings I've swallowed. ~ Dana Gould

As hipster chicks age, and their skin starts to sag, tramp stamps sink below waistbands, like the sun slipping into the sea ... ~ Dana Gould

If I had a dreamcatcher when I was thirteen, it would have spent many long days in the dryer. ~ Dana Gould

if you continue allowing external circumstances to dictate how you feel, you'll always be at the mercy of the situations in your life that are completely beyond your control. ~ Dana Wilde

As we try to change society to fit our standards and bring about the sense of peace we long for, it is only when we turn inwards, clean our own backyards and serve as a source of inspiration that society will improve on its own. ~ Dana Gore

It might not be rational, but I am terrified of getting stuck in an elevator with a bear. ~ Dana Gould

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought. ~ Dana Gioia

I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21 ... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age. ~ Dana Delany

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies. ~ Dana Spiotta

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping. ~ Dana Delany

Did you know that Dog Heaven and Cat Hell were the same place? ~ Dana Gould

I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo. ~ Dana Goodyear