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Dean Koontz

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JIMMY WHITE My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous....
MICHAEL EASTON who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER I probably should have gone to the board first. But I went to the teachers first to see how they fel...
BETH OLMSTEAD people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and inte...
DEAN KOONTZ I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your ...
HEDY LAMARR You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire se...
COLIN POWELL I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should...
JACK WILD I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root be...
HOLLY BLACK When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing bett...
JOE MANTEGNA I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone.
ROSEANNE BARR But movement Republicans want to see the court shift in the direction represented by Scalia and Thom...
CASS SUNSTEIN Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first pass...
OSCAR WILDE Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries ...
DEAN KOONTZ I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. ...
JACK WILD In this world only the paranoid survive.
DEAN KOONTZ I had never gone first.
JEN NICHOLS She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is...
MELINA MARCHETTA When I heard about [O'Sullivan running for Australia] I though that she's actually taking away a pla...
CATHY FREEMAN I am not glad she is dead, but I am not sorry she is gone.
CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo...
ALICE MUNRO I believe that once we are all gone, Keith Richards will still be here...with 5 cockroaches saying '...
ROBIN WILLIAMS But we still do our jobs. Our pride in our jobs has been hurt, but I wouldn't say that it is gone.
JOE FRIDAY There are reasons we should have gone over there, and there are reasons we shouldn't have gone over ...
CHAD TOPP I can still see him lying in the back seat of the car. I called his name but he never looked up. He ...
ASTON TEAL The ones we have lost we should not have done. I should be sitting here unbeaten but I am still happ...
DENIS SMITH To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems you...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems you...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prow...
TAMA JANOWITZ I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respe...
GAYLE LYNDS I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.
DAVID TALBOT When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Musicians were living there, but there wasn't a scene before. It's not like the scene is dead here, ...
ANTHONY COLEMAN I like the finals format but I don't like the first two rounds. It's never going to be perfect until...
MIKE THIBAULT The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo...
ALICE MUNRO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES My name is Katniss Everdeen.
Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.
SUZANNE COLLINS Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, nev...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told the...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Your parents are dead, you are not fine, and nothing is going to be okay. This is not news to you. B...
NORA SAKAVIC I need that first big win. I'm always fifth or sixth but never first and I hope here I can do that,
CARLOS GARCIA The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, fil...
BILL HADER This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors...
DEAN SMITH I myself felt as if our government was gone, but thank God it still exists.
HARRY HOOVER Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of ...
LORD BYRON Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of...
LORD BYRON To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never rece...
WILLIAM WALLACE When you stop learning, you still alive but your spirit is dead.
JOHN DI LEMME But I never was a strikeout pitcher like Bob Feller or Dizzy Dean or Dazzy Vance.
CARL HUBBELL I cannot be grasped in the here and now,
For my dwelling place is much among the dead,
As the ...
PAUL KLEE Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a ...
EPICTETUS Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us sho...
SOURCE UNKNOWN My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.
SHILPA SHETTY When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and i...
TED KULONGOSKI The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't ...
DEAN KOONTZ In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen mom...
DEAN KOONTZ I don't think Bush would have gone down there if he knew he'd run into this kind of opposition, ... ...
MARK WEISBROT What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person o...
NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN I used to think the most important thing for a reporter was to be where the news is and be the first...
JUDY POLUMBAUM Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it&#...
JOEL OSTEEN Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most cer...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Forever here today, never gone tomorrow, my eternal friend, I love you.
LISA MARIE PRESLEY And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, an...
CHARLES DICKENS The Bush rate hike would have a devastating impact on our economy and jobs. I will not rest until th...
MARIA CANTWELL My first thought when I got here was 'Maybe I should have stayed home. But I love to dance, so I sta...
EDWIN JACKSON They still have a plaque on the wall saying Dean and I lived there and never paid any rent. But the ...
SONNY KING My heart is dead but the dead still cries.
LARRY KELLY But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave a...
AMANDA GRACE I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside de...
TIMOTHY F. CAHILL I still want to coach and teach. At times, I'm not happy with some of the things that have gone on h...
BOB VAUGHAN I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love y...
ROBERTO CAVALLI I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you ...
WOODY ALLEN Our house is damaged, but we could still stay here. But we're leaving. I can't take it anymore.
ALLEN MILLER I never dreamed I would be doing a Ph.D., ... I never dreamed I would become a professor. I certainl...
JOSEPH WHITE if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Babies don't need a vacation but I still see them at the beach. I'll go over to them and say, 'What ...
STEPHEN WRIGHT The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was...
I. M. PEI I don't think a professional agent or theatre manager would say my career had gone as well as pe...
RON MOODY It has everything to do with the deep feeling and desire I have to still contribute, the feeling tha...
ALLAN RULE It has everything to do with the deep feeling and desire I have to still contribute, the feeling tha...
ALLAN HOUSTON RULE A fierce battle was raging inside Harry's brain:
She's Ron's sister.
But she's ditc...
J.K. ROWLING I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I This was completely unfair and I was happy to see the dean saw it our way.
FERNANDO ASCENCIO It was my first final, so I was a little bit overwhelmed at the whole atmosphere. It was still a clo...
IVO KARLOVIC decided we should not be able to say 'under God' when we pledge allegiance to the flag.
BILL MYERS Over time, our anger has gone, and we've understood why it has to be there. But we still don't like ...
BARBARA HOFFMAN The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn't work out, but plans never ...
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DEAN KOONTZ Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
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DEAN KOONTZ A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
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DEAN KOONTZ Damn it, there is no world if there is not a human eye to see it, no world of any purpose or meaning...
DEAN KOONTZ Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human...
DEAN KOONTZ In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of...
DEAN KOONTZ Patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives, and the most common pattern is the circle.
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DEAN KOONTZ I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."

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DEAN KOONTZ Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drin...
DEAN KOONTZ It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear...
DEAN KOONTZ You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.
DEAN KOONTZ From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...
DEAN KOONTZ That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...
DEAN KOONTZ She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w...
DEAN KOONTZ For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
DEAN KOONTZ One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I...
DEAN KOONTZ I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
DEAN KOONTZ That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.
DEAN KOONTZ Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
DEAN KOONTZ The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with...
DEAN KOONTZ The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen i...
DEAN KOONTZ Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog...
DEAN KOONTZ it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a...
DEAN KOONTZ Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it ...
DEAN KOONTZ Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life c...
DEAN KOONTZ There’s such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But ...
DEAN KOONTZ He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was s...
DEAN KOONTZ The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
DEAN KOONTZ He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not ...
DEAN KOONTZ His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cat...
DEAN KOONTZ The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them...
DEAN KOONTZ But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s in...
DEAN KOONTZ